Laptop hangs during boot / PCMCIA trouble

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 15.07.2004 schrieb Cornelius Puschmann um 6:22:

> The step it's having trouble with is PCMCIA Services. Before installing 
> Fedore I gave the Slax LiveCD a try and had the same problem. Everything 
> worked fine once I booted Slax without PCMCIA, but with Fedora I'm not 
> entirely sure how to boot with parameters(?).
> 
> I assume my eMachines laptop (umm, it was cheap.. what can I say) has 
> obscure hardware or there's something else I'm doing wrong. Any help is much 
> appreciated.
> 
> My system:
> 
> eMachines M6805
> AMD Mobile Athlon 64 3000+
> on Fedora Core 2 x86_64

> Corn

http://www.ckloiber.com/

Chris Kloiber is a Redhat guy and normally contributes here nicely. He
may comment your efforts when he watches your mailing, maybe he is just
busy at the moment. I don't know whether there are specific x86_64
issues with your eMachines Laptop. I just found quickly

http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html

and there the first Q/A.

On how to boot Fedora with parameters you'll find some useful hints at

http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/ --> 13.  Q: Other Miscellanous Issues
(Alan Cox's Notes)

Alexander


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