Re: [TCLUG:14424] PCMCIA causes hang on boot-up

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Dave Sherman wrote:

> Help!!!
> 
> Okay, after fiddling with my PCMCIA setup on my ThinkPad, now whenever I try to
> boot into Linux, it hangs while trying to load the PCMCIA module. I can't seem
> to find my emergency boot diskette (I really did make one!), and so now I can't
> boot into Linux at all -- unless someone can help me. Is there a way of forcing
> PCMCIA to be ignored on bootup?
> 
> Dave Sherman

you can just do like 'linux single' at the lilo prompt, reconfigure linux
not to load pcmcia at startup (on redhat, chkconfig --del pcmcia or
something like that), and reboot and fix your problems..

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