These are problems that I've had on in the development kernels, not the 2.2 series.
Loosing the inturupt means you have a timming problem. ARE YOU OVER-CLOCKING. Some
MB's and Hard-drives can get the timmng right some can't. What type of hardware are
you running. If Slackware also caused problems with your harddrive you may just have
buggy hardware. I noticed that your dealing with hda5 is this your / partition? Is
your /boot below the 1024 cylinder.
Also if you do "one last re-install" don't select specific packages. Let Xdrake
install what it wants. But choose the "Developer" install or you'll have to add a
bunch of -devel packages later to compile anything.
John
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:49:50 -0400
>Hi folks,
>
>My install keeps booting to text install and then does not recognize my
>partition table.
>Sample message:
>
>hdb: drive not ready for command
>hdb: status error: status = 0x00 {}
>unable to read partition table
>hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
>hdd: lost interrupt
>
>The line: 'hdd: lost interrupt' keeps repeating and repeating until I have to
>do a CNTRL+ALT+DELETE.
>
>How do you get into graphical mode? I have the Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
>
>Roman
>Registered User
>
>Eduardo Arauz wrote:
>
>> i haved the same problem a month ago.. try first to run :
>> fsck/dev/hda5.. once you ve got into root.. and see if that solve the
>> problem... i am about to quit mandrake too but because other problems....
>> finally i reinstalled all ... and upgraded my PC but it still doesnt work
>> 100% i cant mount either a cd rom or a diskette )
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: X Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:40 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
>>
>> I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
>> is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
>> Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
>> browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
>> I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
>> icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
>> normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time
>> to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up
>> and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
>> rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
>> every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the
>> boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
>> "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
>> inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
>> "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
>> options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred
>> during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
>> reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
>> ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
>> "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or
>> 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
>> 1.14...".
>>
>> I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
>> ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
>> saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
>> scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
>>
>> It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
>> finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
>> experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
>> setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
>> reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
>> Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
>> with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime
>> you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and
>> crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
>> AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel
>> different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm
>> thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
>> something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
>> definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
>> like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
>> Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may
>> still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
>> worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time
>> in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do
>> what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded
>> VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full
>> time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-(
>>
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