Mandrake 8 promise ultra ata 66 installation problem

[Dimitris Trifonopoulos]

Hello Steve,

Monday, May 14, 2001, 11:54:15 PM, you wrote:

SS> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Dimitris Trifonopoulos wrote:

>> 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).
>>
SS>  Mallon exeis palio pyrhna h den exeis balei ston kernel sou pci irq
SS> sharing.
SS>  Egw exw ton Promise (pci) na moirazetai irq me thn G400.
SS>  11:     671514          XT-PIC  ide2, mga at PCI:1:0:0

   Exontas valei ton Ultra 100 Promise controller sto slot 4 tis M/B
   (Abit BF6) pou moirazetai to idio IRQ me to USB,
   paroysiastikan ta eksis parafysika fainomena:
   a)Den mporousa na kano egkatastasi tou SuSE linux 7.0 Kollouse stin
   arxiki arxiki ekkinisi apo to CD (den empaine kan se GUI). Ta win
   itan ok.
   b) Kanontas update sto bios tou Promise, ksekinouse sto Linux alla
   den ksekinouse sta winblows.
   Telika kratisa to palio bios toy Promise kai ksekinisa to (palio
   mou) Linux me allon kernel. Eftiaksa kainourion kai ton evala stin
   thesi tou paliou stin disketta egkatastasis (eftiaksa mia tetoia me
   custom kernel me odigies apo tin SuSE knowledge base). Etsi opote
   ithela na ksekiniso apo to CD (p.x. giati xreiazomoun rescue system)
    evaza tin custom disketoula pou eixa ftiaksei.
   Ola ayta ta koyfa nomiza oti ginontan giati i SuSE den eixe
   provlepsei ston kernel tis oti mporei na xreiastei na ekkinisei
   kaneis apo off_board_IDE_controller. Omos den itan etsi. Psaxnontas
   meta apo 4 mines gia kapoio allo periergo provlima (argi
   antigrafi megalon arxeion > 600MB) arxisa na allazo thesi stis
   kartes. Molis efyge o Promise apo to slot 4 ola doulevan roloi (kai
   me to teleytaio bios pou toy evala telika). Isos einai kapoia
   idiotropia tis M/B , den ksero an sigoura ftaiei o Promise. Apla se
   kapoion pou tou kollaei to systima stin ekkinisi kai exei kai
   Promise, skeftika oti oi parapano symvoules ISOS ton voithisoun.
   Kai leo isos giati den exo asxolithei me to Mandrake 8.0.




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 Dimitris                            mailto:dtrif at yifan.net