On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to > > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. > > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the cables so the second HD > > looks like the only drive.... same again :(( > > load a dos floppy with fdisk on it and delete the primary partition. > > try yo install MDK9.2 and 9.1 and 8.2 ....same damn thing with interupt > > failure and protection. > > swap the HD over to second IDE and disable primary IDE in the bios so > > now looking at INT 15.....same B**DDy thing !!!!!. > > > > > > put the original primary HD back in boot up in WinXP and guess what > > second HD shown as 40 GB NTFS. > > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > > winxp has been on a HD.. > > > Problem has nothing to do with the fact that WinXP has already been on the > drive. See below.
I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running linux and get problems on an install, normally when the partition table is written ?? > > > From what I've seen its on different MOBOs different size HDs.. > > > > So what happens to the newbie who gets a bit fed up with gates and buys > > a MDK package, ? > > a system that wont load is disastrous. > > > Come to the mailing lists to see how the problem can be fixed. > > I get the impression you mean the newbie list ? > > any ideas how I can get that crap off the mbr so I can load mdk 9.2 ???. > > I also think Mandrake needs to combat this .. > > > These problems you describe generally relate to the i/o APIC cuasing trouble, > especially with a VIA chipset. You didn't sya what motherboard you have, but > booting the install kernel with the parameters noapic and acpi=off should fix > you right up. At the splash screen, hit escape and then type > > linux noapic acpi=off > > Yes acpi and apic are different, so type it exactly as I have written it. I'll try it , but I'm extremely sceptical Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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