Installation blues- Mandrake 9.1 on HP ZE4325us Laptop

[Lee Einer]

Hi, all-

I am attempting to install Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop, and am having some 
difficulties. I first tried upgrading from 8.2, but this did not work 
out and Mandrake Support informed me that they do not support upgrades 
from non-sequential versions (i.e., you can upgrade to 9.1 only from 
9.0.) . So now I am trying to do the deed as a fresh install, sparing my 
home directory. The install appears to go ok, but on reboot, the system 
hangs at "starting PCMCIA." I have attempted to circumvent this by using 
Interactive Startup, but when I enter the "I" and get the prompt for 
Y,N, or C, the system hangs again and I have to reboot. If I try to use 
Rescue, when I get the Rescue flash screen, the system hangs and I have 
to reboot. Passing the nopcmcia command to the kernel at the start of 
the install does nothing.

How can I get this installed? I have probably run the install 10 - 15 
times now, trying various options.

Lee Einer