Fedora Core 1 on Compaq M700 1GHz - Yenta hangs boot

[J. Erik Hemdal]

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> From: Mike Andrews <maaddr-fedora at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fedora Core 1 on Compaq M700 1GHz - Yenta hangs boot
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> Yenta IRQ
> list 06b8 PCI irq 11
> Socket status: 30000006
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> Yenta IRQ
> list 06b8 PCI irq 11
> Socket status: 30000006
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Mike:  I get these messages on every boot, since day 1, on two different
laptops.  I never gave them a second thought because I never had a problem
with the PCMCIA slots.  I don't think they are errors, and if they are, I
hope someone will advise.  BTW, this shows up on RH8 and RH9 on my system.

I do know that on FC1, if you happen to have a card IN the slot (in my case
it would be a network card), then the boot will hang.  This issue has been
batted around with solutions having to do with BIOS updates.  The fix, from
what I recall of the postings, sounded worse than the problem, so I never
pursued it.  

Is this what's going on?  If you successfully fsck the disk, I've never
known of a situation where the disk remains corrupted.  But you might have a
corrupted file from the yenta package (do an rpm search for yenta* to make
sure you get the name right).  Fsck will make the filesystem sound, but it
can trash individual files in the process.

Erik

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> After that message is shown the disk has occasional activity but it 
> never completes booting.
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> Is this a sign that he disk is throughly corrupt?
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> I can't quite figure out a way to change the Grub boot 
> options to get to 
> the disk. I have pressed the "I" to get Interactive options but it 
> doesn't seem to have an effect.  I guess I have to boot to a 
> CD and poke 
> around, which I can do. Should I comment out the Yenta driver?
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> It boots to WinXP fine so I know a don't have a disk hardware problem.
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> I'd appreciate any advice.
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> --Mike
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