Dear all:
OK, I am starting to dislike this mailing list and Mandrake 6.0. I sent
a question to the list asking for help and what I get back is a flame war.
Could somebody please focus on the issue at hand and provide any type of
helpful information that will assist me in resolving my problem?
The description of the problem is below.
Thanks,
Gabriel
> I am a Slackware user, but I have heard so many good things about Read
>Hat that I decided to give it a try. So far it has not been a positive
>experience . . .
>
> My machine is configured as follows:
>
> Pentium 75MHz
> 64MB RAM
> ide0 @ 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 @ 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 (serialized with ide0)
> hda: Conner Peripherals 1275MB - CFA1275A,
> 1220MB w/256KB Cahce, CHS=619/64/63
> hdb: Maxtor 72004 AP,
> 1916MB w/128KB Cache, CHS=973/64/63
> hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM DVD-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048KB Cache
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1, hda2, hda3
> hdb: hdb1, hdb2
>
> I have Windows 95 and Slackware Linux currently installed. The first
>hard drive has a partition for Windows 95 and two partitions
>for Linux (/swap and /). The second hard drive has one partition for
>Windows 95 (mounted under Linux) and a partition for Linux (/usr). Both
>drives are under the IDE0 controller.
>
> Under the IDE1 controller, I have a CD-R/RW drive.
>
> Everything works fine with Windows 95 and the version of Slakware that I
>have installed.
>
> When I tried installing Mandrake 6.0, I was under the impression that
>the installation would take care of deleting or repartition the
>hard drives. However, this is not the case.
>
> After the installation type is selected and the kernel is loaded. I see
>a message "Running install..." and everything hangs.
>
> When I check with ALT-F4, I can see the following error messages:
>
> VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> hdb: lost interrupt
> hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
> status error: status 0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1 (22,0)
> hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04
> hdc: lost interrupt:
> hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x1)
> hdc: lost interrupt:
> hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x1)
> ...
>
> I do not understand why the hard drives are used and mounted correctly
>with Windows 95 and Slackware, but with Mandrake 6.0 they are not
>recognized.
>
> Do you have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gabriel
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