Hi
I'm new to Linux... How new, you may ask? Well, so new I'm not qute sure what
I'm letting myself in for!!!! One of the reasons for choosing Mandrake's distribution
was for ease of use.
Question / problem:
Version 7.2
I have a machine that does NOT support booting from the CD-ROM directly, so
I am forced to use a boot disk, created from \images\cdrom.img.
During the 1st stage of the installation ('DOS' graphical interface), it says
Starting: please Wait...
After waiting a long time, it then says CDROM: Initializing CDROM... After a
hell of a long tine, I guess it fails, and then asks me to ID the type of CD-ROM
drive I have. I then specify 'OTHER' and select it as an IDE-CD, to which I
say to do an AutoProbe. The system comes back with the answer that it can't
detect the device anywhere on the system. Is there a switch (?) I can use to
log the boot process to post here for all you experts' perusal?
I have a:
P75, 16MB RAM
1.2 GB IDE HDD on the PRIMARY channel as MASTER
IDE CD-ROM on the PRIMARY channel as SLAVE
For the record, during the initial boot process it also comes up with the following:
hda is correctly ID'ed as my Quantum 1.2MB HDD
then
Partition check
hda: irq timeout (repeated 3 times)
then
ide0: unexpected interrupt
(this entire process then repeats 3 times)
Then goes into the 'dos' graphical interface
Thanks in advance for all the help
Johan
PS I have tried 2 KNOWN working drives... At least they work under all versions
of Windows.
