Dear all:
I am a Slackware user, but I have heard so many good things about Read Hat
that I decided to give it a try. So far it has not been a positive
experience . . .
My machine is configured as follows:
Pentium 75MHz
64MB RAM
ide0 @ 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 @ 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 (serialized with ide0)
hda: Conner Peripherals 1275MB - CFA1275A,
1220MB w/256KB Cahce, CHS=619/64/63
hdb: Maxtor 72004 AP,
1916MB w/128KB Cache, CHS=973/64/63
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM DVD-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048KB Cache
Partition check:
hda: hda1, hda2, hda3
hdb: hdb1, hdb2
I have Windows 95 and Slackware Linux currently installed. Both hard
drives are connected to the primary IDE bus. The master hard drive has a
partition for Windows 95 and two partitions for Linux (/swap and /). The
slave hard drive has one partition for Windows 95 (mounted under Linux) and
a partition for Linux (/usr). Finally, the CD-R/RW drive is an HP CD-Writer
Plus 8200i connected as a master in the secondary IDE bus.
Both Windows 95 and Slakware boot fine and recognize all the drives.
When I tried installing Mandrake 6.0 (McMillan Distribution), after the
installation type (custom, expert, ...) is selected and the kernel is loaded
(successfully recognizing all hardware components), I see a message "Running
install..." and everything hangs.
When I check with ALT-F4, I can see the following error messages:
VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
status error: status 0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
hdb: drive not ready for command
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1 (22,0)
hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04
hdc: lost interrupt:
hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x1)
hdc: lost interrupt:
hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x1)
...
I was told that it was possible the CD-R/RW drive was getting confused
with the DMA instructions sent by the kernel, but what about the error with
the hard drive?
Is there a way I can boot the machine with the boot image provided to
install the OS? Do you have any ideas, suggestions?
Thanks,
Gabriel
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