Either what Scott said or Linux reckons the disk is a lost cause. This
stuff isn't normal. Did you ever have any other operating system on the
disk? Did you have any problems installing that?
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 22-01-2004 07:42:14 AM:
>
> > Hi there,
> > I'm new to linux and am trying to install it on my Dell Dimension 8300.
> > I'm having some trouble though and am finding it hard to get any
> > help. I get the following lines on the initial screen
> > hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: host protected area =>1
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: 234375000 sectors (120000MB) w/8192KiB cache, CHS=14589/555/63,
> UDMA(33)
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > Partition check:
> > hda: <4> hda: dma_timer and so on
>
> This sounds like a dma problem.
> You should get some sort of Boot: prompt right? (I haven't installed
> Mandrake 9.2, and its been so long sine I have installed Redhat 7.2)
> at the boot prompt, type your kernel image (ie: linux??) followed by
> ide=nodma. it should read:
> linux ide=nodma
>
> If the image is not linux, I think pressing tab twice will show you what
> images you can select from.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
>
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