Hi everyone,
What is it they say on all the talk shows? "Long time listener, first
time caller" :-)
Anyway, I have a file server on my home network running out-of-the-box
Mandrake 8.2 & I'm trying to upgrade the drives & put a 120Gb Maxtor
in there. I initially tried putting it in alongside the existing
drives so I could boot my existing Mandrake & partition/format/mount
the drive from in there - but it hung on Partition Check during the
first boot.
In an effort to isolate the problem, I've now pulled all the other
drives out & it's:
hba: Maxtor 4G120J6 120Gb
hdb: Creative 52x CDROM
and I'm trying to do a fresh install from CD onto the new drive. And
still it hangs as it loads the initial kernel from CD (i.e. straight
after the "Press ENTER to install" screen).
The IDE part of the boot process reads:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0
ALI15X3: chipset revision 32
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2000-0x2007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2008-0x200f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: Maxtor 4G120J6, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CREATIVE CD5220, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CMS=14946/255/63,
(U)DMA
Partition check:
hda:
...and then it hangs there for as long as I leave it.
I know the drive is physically fine and the hardware is up to
supporting a drive of that size cos
a) Mandrake's happy with 60 & 80Gb drives on that machine.
b) In this new minimum configuration, I did a successful install of
Windows 2000 onto the 120Gb drive
It's a Pentium 233MMX on an S7AX motherboard with an onboard Acer
M5229 IDE controller. BIOS identified the drive as: Maxtor 4G120J6,
LBA ATA 33, 122Gb
So my question is: what's Windows 2000 doing that Mandrake isn't and
how can I steer Mandrake in the right direction? I really don't want
to run Windows 2000 on this machine.
Regards
Jon
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