At 16:54 27/02/02 -0000, Ewan J. Fisher wrote:
>Hi,
> I have recently removed my CD RW and SCSI from my Linux machine so that
>I can use them in my new pc. However when I start up Linux on the old
>machine it halts at
>"ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14"
>
> Is this a hardware problem or a Linux problem? And how do I fix it? I
>need it fixed as soon as possible so _any_ advice at all would be VERY much
>appreciated.
Assuming the sequence is the same as that for a 2.0.36 box I have here, the
next steps should be checking for a floppy disk controller before it starts
looking at md stuff (which AIR ues SCSI emulation) then SCSI. Since its
unlikely that your kernel doesn't have floppy drive support this sort of
implies that removing the SCSI/CD-ROM wasn't the problem. (You didn't put
in a IDE CDROM in place - Linux is a lot more particular than MS-Windows
about M/S/CS settings).
<snip some stuff>
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf
hdc: CD-ROM CDU701, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<hopefully it has reported it found your hard disk by this point>
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<goes on to probe, identify SCSI hardware and mount root filesystem>
I'd try booting from floppy disks and trying to mount the filesystems from
there to make sure the HD is OK. If that works, try booting from the same
disk using root=/dev/hda1 (or whatever). It might be helpful to look at the
startup from the system before you removed the card/disk.
(well you did say _any_ advice)
Colin
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