failure to boot
Gerhard H. W. May
g.may at bio.gla.ac.uk
Thu Nov 18 12:21:24 UTC 2004
I have been having problems booting my machine in FC3.
James Wilkinson suggested:
>
> snd-intel8x0m: sound and/or modem
> i8xx_tco: watchhdog: can reboot the machine if it hangs. You don't need
> it.
> hw_random: Hardware random number generator. You don't need it.
> uhci-hcd uhci-hcd : USB
> yenta_socket yenta_socket yenta_socket: PCMCIA, IIRC.
>
> You might want to rewrite those lines:
> load_module snd-intel8x0m
> load_module uhci-hcd
>
> etc.
>
> Then you can enable them and disable them individually without changing
> anything else.
I have not done that yet, I tried first disabling pcmcia, see below.
> Yes, that's fine. For the moment, shall we disable PCMCIA?
>
> There's a couple of ways of doing this.
>
> One is simply to press "I" for an interactive startup when prompted,
> and
> choose not to load PCMCIA services.
I tried that a couple of times, but never managed. I guess I am just
too slow. Then again, I actually don't know if this means 'press
<shift>+i' or just <i>?
> One is to go into /etc/modprobe.conf
> and change the yenta-socket lines to
> install yenta-socket /bin/true
> (or add one of those lines if yenta-socket isn't mentioned).
That's the one I tried. And low and behold, FC3 boots up and lets me
log in and shows me a different desktop from FC2. Thanks a lot, James!
> Or we can get past the "Starting pcmcia" by deleting
> /etc/rc5.d/09pcmcia
> (or the same file in rc3.d if you set X not to start automatically).
Didn't seem necessary any more.
> It would probably help if you could disable RHGB and the quiet mode.
> You've been told how to do this from the grub command line: you can
> make
> this permanent in /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Done that as well. I may change that again at some point, if I get fed
up with all that text.
>
> Good luck!
>
> James.
There are lots more questions for me now. I am not sure if I should
start new threads for each one of them, please advise. The most obvious
one is:
Now that I disabled pcmcia, I suppose I won't be able to use my
wireless cardbus card (D-Link DWL-660). However, I'd like to use it.
How do I do that?
Secondly, what do you use to record CDs in FC3?
Thirdly, how can I mount my Windows partition in FC3 (showing my
complete ignorance again...)?
I also suffer from this 1400x1050 screen resolution problem which seems
to haunt many people. I'll see if I can follow what others have written
before I start bothering this list.
Thanks again, and let me know what I should do about the above
questions.
Gerhard
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