Wonder if that has any relation to linuxconf (lilo) not wanting to
recogize my /dev/hdc1 as a valid Linux partition for booting from?
Boot fine from a floppy . . . .
--
Ty Mixon
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 26147713
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 10/19/99, 8:02:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie]
BUG: 6.1:
> Two more bugs to report:
> 1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE
devices.
> Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I
encountered
> the following errors:
> hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
> hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest }
> hdd: DMA disabled
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest }
> hda: DMA disabled
> and then the entire machine locked up. The keyboard was frozen and I
ended
> up "kicking the Big Red Button" on the machine.
> I modified my BIOS settings to disable DMA support for the interfaces
and
> rebooted. Trying to make the copy, the same errors and lockup (and
> resolution occurred).
> Finally, I modified /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to change the
-d1 to
> -d0 in the hdparm line and rebooted the machine.
> After the reboot, I again attempted the copy only to be greeted with
the
> same errors followed by:
> hdd: ATAPI reset complete
> ATAPI device hdd:
> Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
> Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29,
ascq=0x00)
> hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
Error }
> hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
> ide0: reset: success
> The machine did not lock up this time, but I'm a bit worried by the
> messages. This machine had NO PROBLEMS running Mandrake 6.0 and had
no
> problems running 2.3.x kernels.
> Thinking that I'd simply bypass the bad judgement on Mandrake's part,
I
> moved to compiling my own kernel. Once again, I'm hit with a bug:
[snip]
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
