STEVE GREEDY wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying (for about a week) to install Mandrake versions 6.1 and 7.02. on
> the following:
>
> Tyan 1854 motherboard
> pentium PIII-600
> 128 meg ram
> IMB 13.Gb HDD
> MATROX G400max
> SB 1024 soundcard
> NE2000 comp. ethernet card
>
> he problem is as follows:
>
> After booting up from the CD, I presume the following process is hardware
> detection, what happens is when it gets to IDE0 and IDE1 the system hangs
> for a while and then reports operation timed out and something along the
> lines of IDE0 not found (not responding) and the same for IDE1. Carrying
> on with the installation after this the process cab't get past the formatting of
> the Linxu partition.The same also occurs trying to install Redhat 6.0. I've
> tried the fips & fdisk route as well with no success.
>
> I've managed to successfully install 7.02 on another machine (only real
> difference being the motherboard)
>
> Anyone have any ideas
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
> ----------------------------------------
> Steve Greedy
> School of Electrical & Electronic Eng.
> University of Nottingham
>
> Tel: 0115 9514273
> Fax: 0115 9515616
>
> http://www.eee.nott.ac.uk/solid/pic/
Do you have an ata66 controller/drive? I think you need to download a
test kernel to try to get it installed.
