Laptop hangs during boot / PCMCIA trouble

[Cornelius Puschmann]

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>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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Many thanks to both you and Craig Thomas for the link to ckloiber.com - I'll 
be sure to do a little more research next time before mailing. Once I'm back 
we'll see whether I can get a decent OS to work on that beastly eMachines 
laptop :)

Have a nice weekend y'all,

Corn

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