Common problem. That Live Eval CD is broken. I've tried it on 3 computers and it failed on all of 'em. Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone. Strange problem here. Hope someone can help.
I am running SuSE 9.0 on an e-Machine (2.8 Ghz Celeron, 512 MB memory). No problems.
However, when I try to run the SuSE 9.1 "live CD" to evaluate this newest version of SuSE I can't get the program to install.
The CD starts up, and after pressing F2 I can read the various lines scrolling on screen as the CD loads. But it gets to a line that says "Starting PCMCIA" and then it hangs. It absolutely will not go past this "Starting PCMCIA" line. I've tried multiple times.
I have to do the 3-finger salute (control/alt/delete) to get the machine to reboot. As it shuts down I again can read the lines after pressing F2. Here I see one particularly interesting line, though I don't know if it is relevent to the problem. The line says "Shutting down PCMCIA fatal Module yenta_socket in use"
Yenta_socket???? What is that?
Tech support at e-Machines had no idea.
For reasons I don't understand SuSE seems to think there is a PCMCIA card in this desktop computer. There is not. Neither is there a wireless card. But something is tricking SuSE into thinking there is PCMCIA on this computer, and SuSE just gets hopelessly hung at that point.
I am using an original SuSE "live CD," not a disk downloaded from the Internet.
In addition, the "live CD" has successfully run on three other SuSE 9.0 boxes here including a 400Mhz Celeron (a real oldie).
I called e-Machines and they could not help ("We don't support Linux, only Windows."). :o(
I also was advised by SuSE (San Francisco) to try typing "nopcmcia=1" as the boot option at start up. That did not help. I also tried this in "safe" mode. That also did not help. In both cases SuSE still hung at "Starting PCMCIA."
Any ideas why my e-Machine won't load the "live CD"? I am concerned that if it won't load this "test" version of 9.1 then I might have problems once I decide to upgrade to 9.1 using the 9.1 professional disks.
Your thoughts and guidance are greatly appreciated. ;o)
Gil