On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:37 -0400, 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. > Use the interactive startup ... Press i when the prompt appears, then skip the pcmcia part. > Thanks! > >
