I'm trying to install Mandrake Linux 9.0 (kernel 2.4.19) on a Toshiba Tecra 9000, and I'm running into very early trouble... I've downloaded all three CD's from Mandrake's mirrors, and successfully used them to install Linux on a desktop machine (yay!). However I can't seem to figure out the problem for getting it installed on the Toshiba Tecra laptop.
Regardless of whether I try CDROM-based installation or floppy based
installation (and I've tried cdrom.img and hd.img on the floppy), they
all fail at exactly the same point, and here is the snippet right
before the system freezes without any further activity (I'm typing it
in from my notes):
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
ICH3M: chipset revision 1
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xcfa0-0xcfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xcfa8-0xcfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
And then nothing more...
I've tried utilizing different installation "strings" but all to no
avail, for example one of those strings is as follows:
expert hdc=cdrom ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune ide2=noautotune ide3=noautotune
Hardware specs:
Machine: Toshiba Tecra 9000
Hard Drive: IC25N020ATCS04-0 on primary channel as master
DVD/CD-ROM drive: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2502 on secondary as master
IDE ATA/ATAPI controller: Intel 82801CAM Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 248A
Notes on the hardware:
- the hard drive controller is an UDMA-capable controller, at speeds up to 100 MB/sec burst rate at least.
- the chipset in the controller is known as the ICH3M (82801CAM), and as far as I can tell...and I am NOT sure...this chipset had problems being supported properly in kernel 2.4.19. Please correct me if I am wrong!
- the hard drive is an IBM Travelstar 40GN 20GB ATA/100 2.5in 4200RPM Mobile Hard Drive, so it too is capable of higher speeds
Important Note: the alternative kernels supplied under the 9.0 CD's also do NOT work, so it appears that something about the way all the kernels supplied on the CD's is off...or not?
By the way, the laptop already boots up fine under Windows 2000 Professional. Windows tells me there is NO conflict for IRQ 11, though there is certainly sharing going on. Windows seems to handle it fine though.
Another note: I tried downloading a 2.4.18 kernel from Redhat 8.0, and that worked fine just to boot up: hard drive and CD were both detected just fine, but NOT using ICH3M but rather PIIX4 which is slower (PIO mode).
TIA
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