[vox-tech] boot problems

[andy wergedal]

I have waited but no time out.
I have removed all cards, and waited again but no timeout.

When I press ctl-atl-del it skips to the next few modules but then shutsdown and reboots (like it should).

-- Andy

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 11:07:46AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin andy wergedal <awerg@yahoo.com> 
> > All,
> > 
> > I have a problem booting my laptop. I put it into suspend
> > mode last night. It did not suspend but just powered off.
> > Now it hangs when it boots.
> > 
> > Laptop: Dell Latitude D300XT
> > OS: KRUD 7.3 (Redhat 7.3 with all the security updates)
> > 
> > Here is the text displayed 
> > 
> > starting PCMCIA: Yenta IRQ list 0618 PCI irq11
> > socket status 30000010
> > Yenta IRQ list 0618, PCI irq11
> > socket status 30000006
> 
> is this the last message you see?
> 
> socket status... wierd.  have you tried waiting 10 minutes to see if
> whatever is happening times out?  i'd be surprised if this didn't time
> out eventually.
>  
> have you tried taking out all pcmcia cards?
> 
> 
> > I need to recover my home directory.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>  
> use your boot/rescue disk.   lnx-bbc is perfect for this; networking is
> effortless and you can scp over home.tar.bz2.  the debian install disks
> are good rescue disks too.
> 
> don't reinstall the OS;  this is fixable.
> 
> pete
> 
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