Please help a deperate man...

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2 total messages Started by Daniel Mellgren Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00

#121

Author: Daniel Mellgren
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00

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Hi,

I have had this problem for a while now and I really want to test RedHat 
but I can't because of this F*cking problem.

When I boot up with my boot diskette, and chose General installation by 
just pressing -ENTER- I starts to checking all my hardware, the CPU, RAM 
memory, the PCI bus and so on. But after this lines:

IDE 182371 P11X (triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57

	IDE 0: BM.DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
	IDE 1: BM.DMA at 0xffa8-0xffa7

The system completely hangs and my disk drives is lightning but it 
doesn't read anything and even if I take out the diskette it doesn't stop 
lightning and either CAPS LOCK or any other key works.  This happens also 
before I take out the diskette.

What can be my problem? 
Here's my hardware:

Fujitsu 2,5 GB IDE and Ultra-DMA is avalible if you install DMA but I 
have'nt done that,
ET600 4 MB RAM graphic card, NEC FLOPPY drive, Pioneer 32x CD-ron DRIVE 
IDE, a JET motherboard whit the TX chip and a Intel 233 MMX mhz CPU.

I use RedHat 5.0 and I'm a really "newbie" at this area.

By the way, _PLEASE_ send a CC to 
daniel.mellgren@sundbyberg.mail.telia.com

Really thanks in advance,
//Daniel Mellgren

Re: Please help a deperate man...

#122

Author: gerhard kowar
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00

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Daniel Mellgren wrote:

> IDE 182371 P11X (triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
>
>         IDE 0: BM.DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
>         IDE 1: BM.DMA at 0xffa8-0xffa7

isn't it right ? intel triton chipset   Busmaster DMA  ...

> Fujitsu 2,5 GB IDE and Ultra-DMA is avalible if you install DMA but I
> have'nt done that,

> (on drive ? or bios ?configured on IDE 0 as master  IMO  linux drivers
> check the system themselves)

> Pioneer 32x CD-rom

check it again without cdrom (you have it on IDE 1 configured as master? dont
slow down your bus when both need it)
and last slow down your cpu (sometimes it may help at least while
installing)and do not use 100MHz on pci bus
(the bus can do it but maybe some pci-cards not !)

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