On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Marc Olivier Chouinard wrote:
> Im trying to install Mandrake 7.2 Beta 3 on an 10gig HD using an ATA-66
> Promise Addon Card
>
> And it froze at the detection of the harddisk, after trying to detect an few
> controler and my CDROM, it just jam
This is an ongoing problem - I wish someone at Mandrake would fix it - see
this...
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On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Matthew R. Sprague wrote:
> howdy folks
>
> I just installed cooker on a udma66 hard drive controlled by a promise
> ultra66 pci controller card. It installs without any hitches but upon booting
> with lilo it gets to
> Partition check
> hda: hda1 hda2
> hde:
> At this point the computer freezes and the keyboard won't respond. I can only
> hit he reset switch to reboot. I re-installed 7.1 which works without any
> glitches. What do I need to do here?
I had this too. It is something stupid with the 2.2-17 kernels. I went
back to using the 2.2-16 kernel and the Promise works fine. 2.2-15 and
2.3-99 work too.
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Anthony Cheng wrote:
> I have a hard disk of 20GB attached to promise UDMA 66 card. The first 12GB
> are used by win 98. I am able to install 7.2beta in the remaining space.
> However, 7.2beta hangs on the partition check.
>
> Do anyone know how to solve it??
>
> Best Regards,
> Anthony
Read /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Ultra-DMA.html. What you need to
do is to see what IO addresses Mandrake writes in lilo.conf for your
second tertiary and quaternary disks and add two to each.
It works fine on my box with kernel 2.2.17-0.24mdk. You ought to be
able to install OK - the hang on partition check occurs when you reboot,
so be sure to make a boot floppy with rescue when you install, then fix
/etc/lilo.conf from rescue.
Good luck.
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