http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-28 14:07 ------- Created an attachment (id=402) --> (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=402&action=view) This is /root/drakx/report.bug.gz after installing 9.1 (bamboo release version) in the presence of a microdrive The problem is still there ... When the install finishes, we have devfs=mount in lilo.conf, as well as a line saying disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 If I remove the microdrive, mandrake boots without any problem. But when the drive goes in, the system hangs ... Changeing the devfs entry to nomount failed initially because there was still the disk= ... line. Removing that line allows me to update the lilo parms. But now /dev/hde1 is not a valid block device. Regards Mike ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I installed 9.1 beta 2 on a Compaq Armada M700 (P3, 800Mhz, 128Mb RAM). I left the IBM 1Gig Microdrive in the PCMCIA slot during the install. At the stage when install is laying out the disk slices, it recognises both the main hard disk and the microdrive. By the time we got to the summary where you configure networking, the card has been transformed into a WinModem. I didn't bother configuring networking for this device. When Mandrake re-booted, it wouldn't recognise the card, or go beyond the ide-cs start hde point. I have read all the correspondence I could find on the Mandrake fora about Microdrives. I can see that there is some kind of problem with devfs too, but I don't know whether this is an instance of the same problem, or a separate issue with installation. In earlier releases of RedHat, there was a block- major-33 module you could configure on, but I don't find any reference to this parameter in the expected places (etc/modules.conf). So while you think about this, I am going to write a script to check every text file on the freaking hard-disk :-)) Keep up the good work! Mike Murphy
