How To Disable Pcmcia In Suse 9.2?

Hi all.

I am installing Suse 9.2 on a Gericom Blockbuster, but it locks at "Starting PCMCIA devices". I have tried with boot option "nopcmcia" as suggested somewhere on the internet but no-go. Even if I select Falisafe settings it just wants to start PCMCIA anyway. Funny, I tried Ubuntu LiveCD linux and there is the same problem. But if I select Failsafe option in Ubuntu boot - it works fine. I am supposing suse won't do boot options commands. Or something. I tryed both LiveCD and Install from Suse. Install would complete fine, but during the first boot it hangs.

I wrote at tech support at Gericom but they didn't reply me.

I would be appreciated if anyone have any suggestion.

Installation
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I had a similar problem when installing RedHat 8 ages ago. I got around it by booting into the installation program using a floppy boot disk (i.e. pretend you can't boot directly from a CDROM) and then the installation program didn't bother trying to check for PCMCIA devices.

Not sure whether it will work with SuSE (it recognised by PCMCIA perfectly) but its worth a try.

Booting into the system
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Once you've got SuSE installed you may find you have problems booting into the system with PCMCIA causing the system to freeze (at least i did with redhat).

PCMCIA is started as a service by SuSE- so if you boot into your installed system using the installation CD and then remove PCMCIA from the runlevel editor (using yast) everything should work great.

Yast->System->Run Level Editor

Good luck