On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> Hi Dan
> How far does LILO get? Does it spit out anything?
>
> Do you get L ? or LI? or LIL? etc. Let me know.
>
> CHeers,
> Sheldon.
>
>
> DAN Stefanescu wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestions, but I don't seem to make any progress. None
> > of the suggested settings make a difference for either ide0, ide1 etc or
> > hda, hdb etc. I tried the kludge of starting the boot with 5.2 and
> > continuing with 6.0 CD. The installation went through, save a few error
> > messages. However, afterwards, the LILO boot failed in the same spot. I
> > did not try (yet?) to update the kernel from 5.2 to 6.0 as Axalon
> > suggested. Is it fair to extrapolate that what I am encountering is a
> > kernel bug?
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> >
> > > "Dan C. Stefanescu" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars:
> > > >
> > > > My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz),
> > > >
> > > > Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an
> > > > Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR. There is nothing
> > > >
> > > > on the IDEs. The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. Attempts to
> > > > install RH and/or Mandrake 6.0, either from floppy or from CDROM(which
> > > > is bootable),
> > > > fail very early, before getting to any dialog screens. Here are the last
> > > >
> > > > few lines before the installation freezes:
> > > >
> > > > RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> > > > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> > > > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > > > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device c9, VID=1042,
> > > > DID=3020
> > > > PCI_IDE: device enabled (Linux)
> > > > PCI_IDE: will probe irqs later
> > > > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> > > > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf
Sheldon it gets to right here.
> > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Dan Stefanescu
> > >
> > > Could you test this : when you see the very first screen of installation
> > > (the one which provide you the choice between normal ("linux<ENTER>" or
> > > <ENTER>) and expert ("expert<ENTER>") mode), try to boot with "linux
> > > ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe .... ide3=noprobre ide0=noautune ...
> > > ide3=noautune" in order to disable any optimizations (UDMA, bus
> > > mastering, ...)
> > > At last resort try "linux ide0=slow ... ide3=slow ide0=serialize ...
> > > ide3=serialize"
> > > Replace "...." by the same for ide1 and ide2 as for ide0
> > >
> > > You can get further information from
> > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt.
> > >
> > > Note that the simplest way to update is to use glint if you have
> > > installed it with your previous distribution and to seek for new rpms on
> > > cdrom.
> > >
> > > At very last resort, you can do a "rpm -Uvh
> > > /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/<NAME_OF_RPMS_YOU_WANT_TO_UPGRADE>" (like
> > > glibc*, XFreee*, ....)
> > >
> > > I hope this will resolve your problem.
> > >
> > > --
> > > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > > --Thierry
> > >
>
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