I installed RH9 on a new HP4325 Athlon laptop after repartitioning with qtparted via knoppix 3.2. The install seemed to work, and I can boot in rescue mode or with my Knoppix CD just fine (if I pass the "nopcmcia" argument to the kernel).
Disabling pcmcia in rc3.d does allow me to boot up, but I need the pcmcia for my wireless card.
Has anyone run into similar issues with recent HP/Compaq laptops, and if so, how did you solve it?
It would help if you gave us your model number. Have you checked out:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
I have a 2105, and it's working great.
