[ILUG] Newbie Question - laptop install

[John Mc Donald]

Check the default runlevel in /etc/inittab

Look for the line below
id:5:initdefault:
This show the runlevel to be 5 (i.e. X login) then go into
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d, where five refers to the runlevel (i.e. go into
rc3.d if your runlevel is 3)

Now find the link to the pcmcia startup script. It will look something
like S09pcmcia (the 09 specifies what point in the startup process it
get called, and the S means that its a startup script). Now either delete
this link or switch off its execute bits (chmod a-x S09pcmcia).

John.


Justin MacCarthy wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>     I installed RH6.0 onto my Gateway Laptop last night; intall went fine
> until the reboot, when it hung on level3 trying to run PCMCIA.
>
> I was able to boot into linux single from the Lilo boot. Firstly how do I
> prevent PCMCIA from running at startup ..???  Does PCMCIA run as a Kernal
> module ???
>
> ~Justin
>
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