Re: Dell Latitude C810
>>>>> "BJ" == Jeff Boutet <Boutet> writes:
BJ> Installation of Debian 2.2r3 on a Dell Latitude C810 hangs
BJ> arfter inital reboot and Debian is trying to load the pc card
BJ> bus. Any idea's?
BJ>
Sounds like this is the infamous PCMCIA hang. 2.2r3 installs the
pcmcia-cs package (PCMCIA Card Services) and this package's init scripts
attempt to scan the PCMCIA bus at startup causing the lockup on some
laptops including Dells.
the solution is this:
- Reboot the system, and press and hold the Shift when "LILO"
appears. At the "boot:" prompt, type "Linux single" (without the quotes)
to boot the system into runlevel 1
- when prompted for your password, press ENTER as the password has not
been set yet
- at the (root) prompt, type the following:
dpkg --purge pcmcia-cs
to get rid of the pcmcia-cs package whose init script is causing the
hang
- type exit to leave runlevel 1 and continue on with the second stage
install
I have used this above procedure to get around the same problem when
installing from Debian potato's (2.2r3 = potato) boot-floppies on my
Latitude C800.
One other solution is to install the testing/woody distribution which
doesn't install pcmcia-cs in the base install. I have used the
testing/woody boot-floppies version 3.0.15 to install on my C800 and a
couple of systems, and everything went quite smoothly.
--
Salman Ahmed
ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com
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