FC5 not booting on Toshiba laptop

[John Summerfield]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I installed Fedora Core 5 on my Toshiba Tecra A7 laptop (centrino dual-core,
> sata HD, ATI x1600 video card).
> Install went fine, however when booting it will show:
> 
> Boot 'Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
> root(hd0,5)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x16eb71]
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2054_FC5.img­
> [Linux-initrd 0 0x1fd56000, 0xf9a47 bytes]
> 
> Decompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> ide0: I/O resource 0x1F8-0x1F7 not free
> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> Red Hat mash version 5.0.32 starting
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> 
> Welcome to Fedora Core
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
So, Press 'I' here to enter interactive startup and see what happens. As 
I recall, one gets to choose what starts, and thay may help isolate the 
problem.


> Setting clock (localtime): Wed [snip]
> Starting udev:
> 
> Then it hangs there.
> 
> I can boot fine from the DVD in recovery mode, even performed a yum update
> etc...
> I was running FC4 on this laptop before. Priori to installing FC5 I wiped
> out the hard-drive
> 
> As a side comment, FC4 would also hangs during boot when it was starting the
> PCMCIA service, I had to disable /etc/init.d/pcmcia (using /sbin/chkconfig
> pcmcia off) for FC4 to boot properly.
> I do not know that this is a related issue as there's no pcmcia scripts and
> it hangs with FC5 much sooner. Unless PCMCIA detection has been moved in
> udev?
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> JY
> 
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