On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the cables so the second HD > looks like the only drive.... same again :(( > load a dos floppy with fdisk on it and delete the primary partition. > try yo install MDK9.2 and 9.1 and 8.2 ....same damn thing with interupt > failure and protection. > swap the HD over to second IDE and disable primary IDE in the bios so > now looking at INT 15.....same B**DDy thing !!!!!. > > > put the original primary HD back in boot up in WinXP and guess what > second HD shown as 40 GB NTFS. > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > winxp has been on a HD.. > Problem has nothing to do with the fact that WinXP has already been on the drive. See below.
> From what I've seen its on different MOBOs different size HDs.. > > So what happens to the newbie who gets a bit fed up with gates and buys > a MDK package, ? > a system that wont load is disastrous. > Come to the mailing lists to see how the problem can be fixed. > > any ideas how I can get that crap off the mbr so I can load mdk 9.2 ???. > I also think Mandrake needs to combat this .. > These problems you describe generally relate to the i/o APIC cuasing trouble, especially with a VIA chipset. You didn't sya what motherboard you have, but booting the install kernel with the parameters noapic and acpi=off should fix you right up. At the splash screen, hit escape and then type linux noapic acpi=off Yes acpi and apic are different, so type it exactly as I have written it. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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