On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:41:38 -0700
"db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I went ahead and re-did the Mandrake 8.1 install in the manner that
> was suggested but then when I got to trying to install the RH 5.1, the
> process got hung up at Disk druid. "An error occured reading the partition
> table for the block device hda. The error was :: No such file or
> directory" I think this may be occuring because RH 5.1 cannot deal with an
> FAT 32 ATA100 40gig drive. (Not sure if it is the FAT 32, ATA100 part or
> the 40 gig part.)
It is the ata100 part.
Here are directions you can use, but be forewarned that depending upon your hardware
set-up it still may not work.
You could well be better off paying $6 to cheapbytes for the latest ver of RH.
Install instructs:
(If you already have a working install of Mandrake you can obtain the needed info from
it.)
If we can access the console with the installation disk, we can also
use "cat /proc/pci" to display the Promise interface settings: RAID bus interface:
Promise Technology Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d33.
Medium devsel. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xe000. (a)
I/O at 0xd804. (b)
I/O at 0xd400. (c)
I/O at 0xd004. (d)
I/O at 0xc800. (e) and pass "ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2" as a command line
parameter to the kernel. Note that the numbers probably are not the same as what you
will have.
Just as an example, the parameters to use for the above set of numbers
would be ``ide2=0xe000,0xd806 ide3=0xd400,0xd006''.
If you are only using the first channel on the Ultra33 (for
instance, if you only have one drive, or two if they are master and slave on
the same channel), then you won't need to specify ide3.
Red Hat 5.1: Boot with the boot diskette and press enter when prompted.
The kernel will load, and then you will be asked for a language, keyboard
type, and installation method. You may be prompted for additional information
about the source media; it doesn't matter right now what you tell it as long
as you can get to the next step. Next you should see a screen titled
``Select Installation Path''; press Alt-F2 now to get to a command prompt.
Run ``cat /proc/pci'', write down
the numbers as above, and reboot from the boot disk. This time, type
``linux ide2= (this is where you put the numbers like shown
above) ide3=(more numbers)''. It should now be able to install
onto your hard disk without difficulty, however LILO will probably not be able to
install; instead make a boot floppy and boot it with the same parameters
until you can patch LILO and and the kernel.
Charles
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