"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
Could you test this : when you see the very first screen of installation
(the one which provide you the choice between normal ("linux<ENTER>" or
<ENTER>) and expert ("expert<ENTER>") mode), try to boot with "linux
ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe .... ide3=noprobre ide0=noautune ...
ide3=noautune" in order to disable any optimizations (UDMA, bus
mastering, ...)
At last resort try "linux ide0=slow ... ide3=slow ide0=serialize ...
ide3=serialize"
Replace "...." by the same for ide1 and ide2 as for ide0
You can get further information from
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt.
Note that the simplest way to update is to use glint if you have
installed it with your previous distribution and to seek for new rpms on
cdrom.
At very last resort, you can do a "rpm -Uvh
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/<NAME_OF_RPMS_YOU_WANT_TO_UPGRADE>" (like
glibc*, XFreee*, ....)
I hope this will resolve your problem.
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