failure to boot

[Gerhard H. W. May]

I have been having problems booting my machine in FC3.

James Wilkinson suggested:
>
> snd-intel8x0m: sound and/or modem
> i8xx_tco: watchhdog: can reboot the machine if it hangs. You don't need
> it.
> hw_random: Hardware random number generator. You don't need it.
> uhci-hcd uhci-hcd : USB
> yenta_socket yenta_socket yenta_socket: PCMCIA, IIRC.
>
> You might want to rewrite those lines:
> load_module snd-intel8x0m
> load_module uhci-hcd
>
> etc.
>
> Then you can enable them and disable them individually without changing
> anything else.

I have not done that yet, I tried first disabling pcmcia, see below.

> Yes, that's fine. For the moment, shall we disable PCMCIA?
>
> There's a couple of ways of doing this.
>
> One is simply to press "I" for an interactive startup when prompted, 
> and
> choose not to load PCMCIA services.

I tried that a couple of times, but never managed. I guess I am just 
too slow. Then again, I actually don't know if this means 'press 
<shift>+i' or just <i>?

> One is to go into /etc/modprobe.conf
> and change the yenta-socket lines to
> install yenta-socket /bin/true
> (or add one of those lines if yenta-socket isn't mentioned).

That's the one I tried. And low and behold, FC3 boots up and lets me 
log in and shows me a different desktop from FC2. Thanks a lot, James!

> Or we can get past the "Starting pcmcia" by deleting 
> /etc/rc5.d/09pcmcia
> (or the same file in rc3.d if you set X not to start automatically).

Didn't seem necessary any more.

> It would probably help if you could disable RHGB and the quiet mode.
> You've been told how to do this from the grub command line: you can 
> make
> this permanent in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

Done that as well. I may change that again at some point, if I get fed 
up with all that text.

>
> Good luck!
>
> James.


There are lots more questions for me now. I am not sure if I should 
start new threads for each one of them, please advise. The most obvious 
one is:

Now that I disabled pcmcia, I suppose I won't be able to use my 
wireless cardbus card (D-Link DWL-660). However, I'd like to use it. 
How do I do that?

Secondly, what do you use to record CDs in FC3?

Thirdly, how can I mount my Windows partition in FC3 (showing my 
complete ignorance again...)?

I also suffer from this 1400x1050 screen resolution problem which seems 
to haunt many people. I'll see if I can follow what others have written 
before I start bothering this list.

Thanks again, and let me know what I should do about the above 
questions.

Gerhard