On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 22:21, Erylon Hines wrote: > 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. > > ---- >
> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Just curious, what do you see in /proc/ioports? What ports are the cd-rom (dvd) and your hard drive using? Scott
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