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. The first
hard drive has a partition for Windows 95 and two partitions for Linux
(/swap and /). The second hard drive has one partition for Windows 95
(mounted under Linux) and a partition for Linux (/usr). Everything works
fine so far . . .
When I tried installing Mandrake 6.0, I was under the impression that the
installation would take care of deleting or repartition the hard drives.
However, this is not the case.
After the installation type is selected and the kernel is loaded. 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 do not understand why the hard drives are used and mounted correctly
with Windows 95 and Slackware.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks,
Gabriel
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