On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > 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. > > I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come > I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running > linux and get problems on an install, normally when the partition table > is written ?? > Well, I can't think of anything specifically about WinXP that would cause this kind of problem. The NTFS filesystem is nothing but a filesystem, a repartition and reformat should be all that is necessary. I am puzzled because I personally have never experienced what you are talking about (WinXP causing this trouble) and I have installed a lot of Mandrake systems on top of disks that used to have ntfs on them.
> > > 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. > > I get the impression you mean the newbie list ? > I was just pointing out in a kind of tongue in cheek way that you came to the right place for help, and a newbie should do the same. > > > 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 .. > > Be very careful, but you could boot into rescue mode and at a console type dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda This will completely overwrite your disk with nothing. > > 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. > > I'll try it , but I'm extremely sceptical > Unless I am missing something that you have not brought up, the errors you are describing generally refer to the IDE controller itself and not the hard drive. I/O APIC and ACPI problems generally cause interrupts to not get assigned properly, so frequent symptoms include nics and usb ports not working and lost interrupts on drive channels. -- /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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