Hi Steven,
I did the steps you suggested.After I reboot, "dmesg " commands outputs the following, ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Linux version 2.4.2-2c1 (root@ripon-clued0) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)) #1 Fri Apr 20 10:36:09 CDT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000000d000 @ 000000000fff3000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000000003000 @ 000000000fff0000 (ACPI NVS) On node 0 totalpages: 65520 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone DMA has max 32 cached pages. zone(1): 61424 pages. zone Normal has max 479 cached pages. zone(2): 0 pages. zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=1601 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2c1 hdd=14593,245,63 ide_setup: hdd=14593,245,63 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1007.054 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2005.40 BogoMIPS Memory: 255284k/262080k available (1373k kernel code, 6408k reserved, 92k data, 236k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb600, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 169453kB/56484kB, 512 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc408-0xc40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: IBM-DTLA-307015, ATA DISK drive hdb: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: WDC WD400BB-32AUA1, ATA DISK drive hdd: WDC WD3220JB/77CRA2 " " " " " " " " " ", ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 30003120 sectors (15362 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=1867/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(33) hdd: 225242955 sectors (115324 MB) w/8448KiB Cache, CHS=14593/245/63, UDMA(33) hdd: INVALID GEOMETRY: 245 PHYSICAL HEADS? Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hdc: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] hdc1 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1) Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7 eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:09.0 eth0: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:02:B3:3D:2A:67, I/O at 0xe000, IRQ 11. Board assembly 721383-017, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7 lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). mtrr: type mismatch for d4000000,2000000 old: write-back new: write-combining es1371: version v0.27 time 10:51:38 Apr 20 2001 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0e.0 es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe400 irq 5 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708) hdd: 225242955 sectors (115324 MB) w/8448KiB Cache, CHS=14593/245/63, UDMA(33) hdd: INVALID GEOMETRY: 245 PHYSICAL HEADS? Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000028 printing eip: c018a6d1 pgd entry cb66a000: 0000000000000000 pmd entry cb66a000: 0000000000000000 ... pmd not present! Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c018a6d1>] EFLAGS: 00210212 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c02e052c edx: 00200212 esi: 00001640 edi: c02e039c ebp: 00001000 esp: cb669ef4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process magicdev (pid: 1305, stackpage=cb669000) Stack: 00000040 00000016 00000040 0000043c 00000001 c02e0520 00000310 c018a771 00001640 00000001 c02e008c cf9e5060 cb373f80 c14d3e48 c018a83f c14b8220 cf9e5060 c013af77 cf9e5060 cb373f80 cb373f80 cf9e5060 c14b9240 c0133310 Call Trace: [<c018a771>] [<c018a83f>] [<c013af77>] [<c0133310>] [<c013323d>] [<c013da0b>] [<c0133526>] [<c010901b>] Code: 8b 40 28 85 c0 74 04 57 ff d0 59 80 a7 ac 00 00 00 fb 8d 87 ide-disk: hdd: Failed to register the driver with ide.c ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Also,after I reboot commands like "fdisk /dev/hdd" "fdisk -l /dev/hdd" freezes _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list