booting gets stuck when starting PCMCIA

[Jim Cornette]

Amadeus W. M. wrote:

>I have this brand new Sony VAIO VGN-S470P laptop and I just installed FC4
>on it. Installation went unexpectedly smooth, but upon first boot, the
>computer freezes at starting PCMCIA. 
>
>Of course the laptop came with factory installed XP, so I had to shrink
>the NTFS partition. I did that using Knoppix 4.0 and upon the first
>attempt to boot knoppix, the same thing happened, it got stuck at starting
>PCMCIA. In Knoppix there was the "nopcmcia" option to boot without, and so
>I managed to get in, but I tried that in FC4 and it's still trying to
>start PCMCIA. 
>
>Is there a kernel option to avoid starting PCMCIA upon boot? Otherwise,
>I'll probably have to boot the rescue cd, chkconfig, etc.
>
>Thanks!
>
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I had problems with my HP laptop when I first installed Severn on it 
that was related to a BIOS setting which related to USB legacy support. 
It would lockup at loading PCMCIA. After changing BIOS to not have USB 
legacy support, it booted up past that error and worked without 
problems. The legacy support emulates PS2 operation for OS versions like 
DOS and are probably not needed for later OS versions. It usually gives 
werd problems if activated though.

Just a similar problem that might be caused by a similar setting. I also 
added acpi=on to my kernel boot stanza to get things working.

Jim

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