On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:07, Stephan Eisermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just installed Mandrake 8 on my Computer...
> the Setup is as follows:
>
> Asus A7V with Promise ATA100 Controller
>
> Normal IDE Controller
> hda == CDROM
>
> Promise ATA 100 Controller
> hde == Maxtor 20GB
> hdg == Maxtor 20GB
>
> Setup went just fine, Lilo installed
>
> /boot == /dev/hde5
> / == /dev/hde7
>
> After the reboot, the machine hangs with : LI
>
> (First boot stage successful second Boot stage failed)
>
> Suggestion:
> Lilo don't expect that the Promise Raid Contoller writes to hde & hdg
> and so can't find the boot.b .... ?
>
> I have also tried booting with Grub but then only "Grub" is displayed
> and the System hangs ....
>
> Booting with a boot disk did just fine but this is no permanent
> solution.
>
> Question:
> Is this a known bug?
> Is there a workaround ?
Not a known bug. This appears on only _some_ A7Vs. If you have a CDRW
sitting on /dev/hda-d it can cause the problem, possibly. A general fix for
this is MandrakeFreq... Just install it. It still may not work for some WD
drives without an idex=noautotune for all Hdd ides at boot time, because not
all WDs are capable of the stretch to ATA-100, and none of them AFAIK are
actually designed for the required data integrity standard above udma2.
Civileme
