booting problem

Forum: Laptops
Topic: booting problem
started by: Dirk

Posted by Dirk on July 24 2005,16:56

i have problem with boot on my laptop, the boot jams with written:"pcmcia found,
starting cardmgr".

Help me.

Posted by torp on July 24 2005,22:59

So are you running a 486 or a new 3.0ghz machine? A few bits of info on your system might be helpful....

torp

Posted by Dirk on July 25 2005,07:51

yes my computer is a mobile intel 3,20 ghz with 512 of ram

Posted by dirk on July 26 2005,13:15

what is the problem?

Posted by newOldUser on July 26 2005,16:17

On the couple of laptops I've worked with I had to use the "NO" options at boot.

I assume you're using a liveCD to boot. When it starts up and you see the DSL logo, press F2. I can't remember all the options but one of them is NO followed by a list of items.

I'm writing this from memory but I think I usually start a laptop with:

DSL NOPCMCIA NOACPI XSETUP

or something close to that (check the list from the F2 boot screen)

I add a lot of them at first and then start removing them one by one and rebooting till I find the minimum I need to boot the laptop.

Good luck