O.K. Last week I installed 9.1 on a firends Compaq Presario 905us. After installing expert with the "Linux noauto nomce noisapnp" switches I actually got the install to complete, and everything worked but usb and the Realtek 8139 card. After getting random crashes I added to the lilo.conf's append line "ide=nodma" and the crashes during normal use went away. After choosing the Realtektoo mod, the Realtek works now, but usb is still a no go. Additionally, the dvd-rom is seen as an Atapi CD-Rom, so some of its functions don't work either.
USB is the hangup right now, and it is a serious one. I can do a "modprobe usbcore, modprobe usb-ohci, and modprobe usb-storage". No errors, and the modules appear to be inserted, but shortly after and KDE locks up hard, requiring an "alt/sysrq/X". Error messages in the logs are non-existent for this crash, but on screen during the sysrq sequence, I see I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 5775824 INIT: cannot execute "sbin/shutdown" alt/sysrq/b is the only way out, and reboot always results in an "operating sytem not found" error. A cold reboot brings the return of lilo. Boot errors are limited to PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10:0 Anyone know what this is? Another is Boot Imige: /dev/hda1 > ide/host 0/bus 0/target0/lun0/part1 Fatal:Kernel doesn't support initial RAM disks Is this a scsi emu error associated with the DVD ROM? Should I recompile and be certain scsi emu is built-into the kernel? Also EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,5) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted : Read failure inode=372431 block=755259 No clue here-can anyone help? I think the problem is the ALI chipset in this machine. It doesn't appear to be fully supported, (ALI Northbridge caution message at begining of boot) and the USB is a nightmare. I tried booting a known working Knoppix disk, and it wouldn't boot. I didn't try any of the boot switches, though, because Knoppix obviously didn't like this piece of crap either. Any help at all would be appreciated. BTW, W2K runs fine, but XP crashed randomly on this machine, according to the owner--hence the reformat and install of W2K.
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