> 2) When booting (both when installing base system, and the first boot > of my system from the newly created system disk, it gave me some > strange messages (like this): > > a) tpqic02: IRQ 5, DMA 1, IO 0x300, IFC Wangtek (some other stuff) > tpqic02: Settings: IRQ 5, DMA 1, IO 0x300 > tpqic02: reset failed! > tpqic02: No drive detected -- releasing irq and dma
The default kernel is compiled for to support a lot of devices; this is code from the QIC-02 tape support (which is SCSI tape AFIAK). This message is purely informative. > b) ide: buggy RZ1000 interface: disabled read-ahead Your IDE controller appears to have a chipset with bugs; Linux appears to work around them. > c) ahal52x: port test: failed SCSI stuff. If you don't have SCSI, just ignore it. > d) NCR53c406a: no available ports found Dito. > e) EATA0: address 0x1f0 in use, skipping probe Dito. > Failed to load module! The symbols from kernel 1.3.37 don't match 1.3.37 Hmmm. This is one of the more cryptic 'modules' messages. > I don't know what this means (especiallly the last five lines). What > is wrong? How can I fix it? I have some unix and programming > experience, but nothing to tell me what to do next. I'm not sure I can give you useful advice hear. If you're up to it, you could try to compile a customized kernel yourself. Ray
