Jeff Vian: >> Use the interactive startup ... Press i when the prompt appears, then >> skip the pcmcia part. Timothy Murphy: > I've occasionally tried this as an experiment, > but never managed to get it to work on my Sony Picturebook laptop. > I've tried "i" and "I" but neither seems to have any effect. > > Incidentally, what exactly does one do if it does work? Figuring out what moment to press the key seems to be a black art, and it always seems to be that it notices you've pressed the key too late for whatever issue you had a problem with. When it works, you get to say "yes" or "no" to each process that would start up as you boot (all the parts that have the [failed] or [ok] lines as it normally boots up). Once you've had enough of playing boot-up demigod, you can "continue" on booting with the normal boot sequence (what's normally started up, will start up, when its turn comes along). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
