sarah
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Joined: Sep. 2005 |
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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,10:27 |
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chimera451: does it stall even when you use the "nopcmcia" boot cheat code?
For jnschaeffer:
Because I don't know much about LiLo or GRUB, I was wondering if rather than trying to edit the config for that (I'm sure someone will be along shortly who can fill you in.. ;o) ) you could boot from the live CD using
| Code Sample | | dsl nopcmcia frugal fromhd=/dev/hdaX restore=hdaY |
Where hdaX is the drive you are running your frugal install from, and hdaY is where you keep your /opt and /home directories (if you have them.
My thinking is that this would get past LiLo (or GRUB) loading crappy stuff, mount and run from your HD install and using the "frugal" parameter would allow you to mount the frugal install as RW. I was thinking that it would then be possible to go into your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts as described by JettCRX:
| Quote (JettCRX @ Dec. 07 2005,13:23) | I found this elsewhere:
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7. Help! PCMCIA is crashing my laptop!
Many distributions come with a PCMCIA card services package that isn't
compatible with many of the Dell's (the Inspiron 8000 has this problem
for one). The three things you need to do to try and fix it are (do
them in this order):
1) Edit your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and change the "include
port" line to read as follows:
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff
(i.e.: remove the range 0x800-0x8ff). This should cause the
lock-up to go away. (Thanks to Marc Swanson for this one) |
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[*snip*] and so on..
Would that work? (I am asking because I don't actually know, and wondered if it would work.. ) Please forgive me for being lengthy about explaining where I was coming from - hopefully my logic makes sense and if I've got the wrong idea peple might at least be able to explain why it wouldn't work.. ?
Cheers and beers,
Sarah
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