booting gets stuck when starting PCMCIA

[Timothy Murphy]

<posted & mailed>

Jeff Vian wrote:

> Use the interactive startup ...  Press i when the prompt appears, then
> skip the pcmcia part.

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?


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