Argggh...
Sorry to scream at all of you, but my I was working on my Dell Inspiron 8200 on battery power, and was just powering off when the battery cut out completely. Now, when I try to start up my machine with the main power connected boot up stalls at PCMCIA. It doesn't hang, because I can ctrl-alt-del and reboot the machine cleanly. But the attempt to get PCMCIA doesn't seem to time out (unless its timeout is *really* long). Boot up just stops there. Now (a) my wireless PCMCIA card is my only internet connection; and (b) I'm lost in Windows (where I'm posting this message from, using the same machine and the same wireless PCMCIA card, so there's nothing wrong with the hardware). Everything was fine before the abrupt power-off. I'm guessing there is something like a lock-file I need to delete, but i dont't know what it is or where it is, and I'm unsure of what steps to take booting my machine with the rescue disk (yes, I do have one).
Forgot to add, this is what I get when attempting to boot:
Starting pcmcia: Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000006 Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000010
After that, nothing ahppens at all.
TIA, Darren
