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.
>
>
>
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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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