Mandrake 8 promise ultra ata 66 installation problem

[Dimitris Trifonopoulos]

Hello Stamatis,

Monday, May 14, 2001, 9:51:29 AM, you wrote:

SKL> Molis egatesthsa to Mandrake 8.0 apo ta CD iso's poy yparxoyn sto site ths
SKL> Mandrake.
SKL> Dystyxos meta thn egkatastash den mporo na kano boot sto linux. To systhma
SKL> mou exei 2 sklhroys diskous ata66 20gb o kathenas kai einai syndedemenoi
SKL> ston Promise Ultra66. O on-board controller den exei syndedemenoys diskoys.

Dokimase sta boot options
linux ide=reverse
An den piasei, prospathise na diapistoseis me kapoio tropo an o
pyrinas exei ypostiriksi gia "boot from off-board ide controller".  An
den exei tha prepei na ekkiniseis me kapoion allo kernel prosorina gia na
mporeseis na metaglottiseis ena kainourio pyrina sto diko sou mixanima pou
na to ypostirizei.
Episis elpizo na min exeis ton controller tis Promise se PCI slot pou
xrisimopoiei to idio IRQ me kapoia alli PCI syskevi. Des to manual tis
M/B giayto (poia slot moirazontai IRQ). Episis oute se PCI slot poy moirazetai to IRQ me to USB,
ESTO kai an exeis apenergopoiisei to "assign IRQ to USB" apo to BIOS.
O controller ti Promise einai poly eyaisthitos se kati tetoia
dystyxos (kai to exo katalavei me ton dyskolo tropo, tis talaiporias).


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Best regards,
 Dimitris                            mailto:dtrif at yifan.net