Andrea Celli wrote:
>
> A week ago i wrote to this mail list about my problems in
> installing M-6.0.
> In a nut shell:
> 1) Cd burned using iso image downloaded from Mdk's mirrors
> don't boots on my system.
> 2) If I boot from a floppy (on which I copied boot.img),
> I'm able to boot but, when I try to install from CD-ROM
> the CD spins without results, the keyboard freezes and
> I can only to reset the PC.
> If i check messages using alt-F3 (before starting
> installation), i found:
> =======================================================
> .........
> <4> hdb: ATAPI 40x CD-ROM drive, 120 kB Cache
> <6> UNIFORM CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
> ..... hda's partitions, floppy, are mounted.........
> <4> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> <6> VFS: Disk Change detected on device ide0(3,64)
> <4> drive-cmd: status=0x51 {Drive Ready SeekCompleteError}
> <4> hdb: drive-cmd: error=0x04
> <4> hdb: drive-cmd: status=0x51 {Drive Ready SeekCompleteError}
> <4> hdb: drive-cmd: error=0x04
> <6> install uses obsolete /proc/pci interface
>
> =============================================================
>
>
> I tried some different way to resolve my problem:
> - following suggestions in mail list,
> - burning new CDs downloaded by different mirrors
> and/or being more careful in procedure.
> - burning a my own image built using mkisofs
> The only result was that my self-made CD boots
> but don't install.
>
> Eventually, i tried using an old (Mdk-5.2) boot.img
> to boot and a M-6.0 Cd to install.
> It works!
>
> Now i think the M-6.0 boot.img have a bug or, at least,
> is not compatible with my system.
> As remark, Mdk-5.3 and RH-6.0 installed without problems.
>
> My system was:
> - Intel Pentium 233 mmx
> - quantum fireball Hb
> - Atapi 40x CD-ROM
>
> In this days i added a new Samsung HD
> (hda=Quantum, hdb=Samsung and hdc=CD)
> the only difference is a new message of this kind:
> hdb: irq lost
> The message don't changes if i move the new HD to hdc
> and the cdrom to hdb: the problem is allways on
> hdb's irq.
> Also with the new configuration i have no problems
> in installing Mdk-5.3 or RH-6.0 or working with
> such distributions.
>
> bye, Andrea Celli
I had a similar problems with an
Intel Pentium 150
Quantum fireball EIDE Hb
Atapi 32x Goldstar CD-ROM
my system does't recognize CD-ROM ' boot-image and installation fails.
As remark, only RH-6.0 works fine and .... in SCSI systems I had no
problems.
Bye
