Booting from a SRM console, could it be because the drive is over 20 gigs? yes the settings are correct for slave and master and they are on the first IDE channel
-----Original Message----- From: Rich Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:01 AM To: Anish Patel Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Alpha and Debian Are you booting from SRM or AlphaBIOS? and make sure all the device master/slave selections are setup properly. --rdp On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Anish Patel wrote: > I have an Alpha 164SX, every time I try to install ANY Linux I get the error > hda2:<> lost interrupt or something similar, I know it has the lost > interrupt part > I want to know if this is something wrong with the new kernel because I have > installed BSD with out any trouble. > > I have attempted to install Mandrake 7.0, the latest Debain and Turbo > I installed Redhat 5.2 on this machine about 3 years ago but I was put away > in storage. the hd had be removed by me earlier > > SYSTEM CONFIG: > Alpha 533 21164 (on board IDE) > 128 Megs PC 100 mem > 20G drive (IDE) > 48X cd rom (IDE) > Matrox Mystique 4Meg > apparently USB is on the board, just headers are not provided. > > > > -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

