If you don't have pcmcia, which it doesn't sound like you do, make /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia nonexecutable. Greg On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:41:54PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Hi Tony - > I just spent some time with a sighted friend slogging through the setup > program menus and have made some progress here. First of all the boot > sequence needed to be fixed. Now I can boot from a floppy okay. > > Second, when DOS failed, the error message was from the memory manager > about a faulty device driver. Since I could now run DOS from a floppy I > simply remarked out the line that loaded my scanner interface card and > deleted the "exclude" phrase on the memory manager line. Now I can boot > into DOS on the HD just fine too. > > I took the "auto" off the IRQ referring to my external modem serial port > and selected the "EISA/ISA" choice, but the modem already worked okay > anyway with "auto" there. It still works okay. > > But I still have a problem sometimes when booting my Linux system. It > always boots up okay from a power off condition. And it also boots up okay > if I do a "shutdown -r" command as root. But it will not load correctly if > I do a "shutdown -h" as root and then hit the reset button (or do > alt-ctrl-del) to try booting back up. And I get the same failure when > running loadlin from DOS. Both these failures are new - they worked fine > before the CPU upgrade, and there have been no software changes or HD > modifications that could account for them. > > The failures always occur at the same place - just after the lines that > show several components of PPP being registered, and immediately prior to > a line referencing PCMCIA. At least when it DOES run to completion, the > PCMCIA line follows the PPP lines in the bootup message sequence. > > I am convinced there must still be something to change in the setup > program, but I have not the foggiest clue as to what it might be. > > When the boot failures occur, there is no speech, no keyboard entries are > possible, and no error messages appear on the screen. The hard reset > button still works, and when it next boots properly there is no forced > disk check resulting from the hanging condition. > > But at least my DOS works and I can pay my bills, even if I cannot put > this powerhouse to work on the scanner. > > Thanks for all your suggestions. > > Chuck > > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Tony Baechler wrote: > > > Hi. You could try making sure plug and play is off in BIOS. This might > > read something like "plug and play OS support" or something. You might > > also make sure that the serial port assignments are not set to > > "auto." Just manually set them to the correct IRQ and set the BIOS to > > manual so it does not change them. Good luck. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waning Crescent (5% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
