On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:52:44AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: > I have two new Dell Latitude D600 notebooks which I am unable to boot > from the linux boot cd. > The process stops every 5 out of 6 tries at probing the cardbus > (identified correctly as Yanda). > Tried it in both 4.4 and 4.6 with the same result. > > Here's the output of the boot process: > > ***And I suppose we may as well look for PCMCIA devices... > cardmgr[614]: watching 2 sockets > cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding 0x0c0000-0x0fffff > > > And there it hangs forever. I tried booting with the option "nopcmcia" , > "nohotplug" and "acpi=off" to > no avail. > > Is there a fix for this? >
If you disable smartcard in the BIOS, then it works. I don't have a D600 in front of me, but I remember it being a several step process involving setting an administrator password on the bios, then that feature was enabled. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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