Give more hardware details. What is the age of your system? are you sure
that you are not running a fried up IDE controller? What about your hard
disk? how old is that?
If hda is a cd drive, then the error messages arent so deadly. Does the
kernel hang _immediately_ after printing "Partition Check:" ? If yes, then
it is possible that both your motherboard and harddisk are operating on
different UDMA modes. Did you upgrade your HDD recently?
Regards,
Karthik
On Monday 05 January 2004 15:05, Arvind wrote:
Hi !
first of all thanks for taking interest in my prob :-) now to the
definition , after i press enter for install[ [ All the linux version viz
Mandrake,Rh,Dragon etc etc] ,it checks for all the hardware and It stops
exactly after looking for the cd rives and when coming to HDD.then the
comment given by setup is "partition check", am typing the exact words in
the setup,hope it helps u in understanding my situation.
after checking for the installed hardware (it detects my HDD then CD rom
drive and floppy ) IT STOPS RIGHT THERE
partition check :
hda<4> hda : dma_timer_expiry
:dma status == 0x21
hda drive not ready for command
hda time out waiting for DMA
hda:(__ide_dma_testing_irq)
called while not waiting
hda: status error:status = 0x58
{DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
this goes on for hda<5>,hda<6>,then it gets bored and waits for a sec and
then am able to run the complete setup.
during startup to the same dma chk is done for 5 mins .. then usual
startup takes place(all the ok stuff !) then it stops after
remounting Filesystem in read write mode [ok]
activating swap partition [ok]
<stops here and does not proceed>
MAY DAY MAY DAY !
Arvind
"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out
and get busy. " --Dale Carnegie
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