On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:49:32PM +0000, Dan C. Stefanescu wrote:
> > I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars:
> >
> > My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz),
> >
> > Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an
> > Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR. There is nothing
> >
> > on the IDEs. The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. Attempts to
> > install RH and/or Mandrake 6.0, either from floppy or from CDROM(which
> > is bootable),
> > fail very early, before getting to any dialog screens. Here are the last
> >
> > few lines before the installation freezes:
> >
> > RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device c9, VID=1042,
> > DID=3020
> > PCI_IDE: device enabled (Linux)
> > PCI_IDE: will probe irqs later
> > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf
> >
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Dan Stefanescu
> >
>
> You need the updated lilo.rpm. The old did just that with SMP systems.
>
> tom
>
Can't be lilo he can't even boot fully to the installer.
Dan, if you can disable the ide interfaces do so. Does the system really
contain 4 ide chains, and is that exactly where it stops?
