Shane Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Jul 2004 at 13:58, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > Shane Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The 4.3 linux cd boots just fine; it proceeds flawlessly on our Optima lab > > > machines but on our IBM PC300 classroom machines it borks with lots of > > > "hda:" errors: > > > > > > "hda: dma_timer_recovery: dma status == 0x24" > > > "hda: DMA interrupt recovery" > > > "hda: lost interrupt" > > > ... ad infinitum > > > > Please try disabling ACPI. See "Is the Linux boot disk actually > > supposed to work?" at <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html>. > > First an apology, dma_timer_recovery should be dma_timer_expiry. > There was no change upon disabling ACPI.
Well, this looks promising: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=2cVUi-33T-11%40gated-at.bofh.it So, maybe try booting with "noapic" and/or "ide0=serialize"? > Is there a way I can dump the screen output to floppy as unattended > boots, so I can send you a copy? A lot of it flashes by too quick to > read. :) You can use Shift+PageUp to scroll backwards. We have no good way to capture the output, but you are right that we should. Hm. > > > The 4.3 dos cd is readable, but not bootable. Have tried both Nero > > > Express and BurnAtOnce, with different brands of CD-R, no change. > > > > Does it fail to boot on all systems, or just the PC300's? > > All systems. To my knowledge, nobody else is having this problem. (Please speak up if I am wrong.) So I suspect a corrupted ISO image. Is it possible something went wrong during the download (unlikely) or extraction (more likely)? - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
