[Ilugc] Linux booting problem in x86
- From: ganesh_v@xxxxxxxxxx (Ganesh V)
- Date: Wed Mar 2 16:42:42 2005
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:12:33AM +0530, Sivasankar Chander wrote:
In my system i have windows-98 & Redhat-9.
from long back they r working fine.
First mistake - there's utterly no need to install
Windows 98. Also a descriptive error - Windows 98 does
not work at all, so it could not have been working fine.
Suddenly one day, while booting kernel it was hang-up
with some messg. as follows:
hdc: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not wating.
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This is a problem with your hard disk, either a
loose power cable, or IDE cable, or bad IDE interface,
or in some cases, a failing drive or motherboard.
So we thought to install newly again Linux on
that...
Second mistake, and bigger than the first one (how did
the thought to delete Windows 98 not occur to you?)
It's never necessary to re-install a Linux distro to solve
a problem, whether it's HW-related (like this one) or SW
configuration related. Anything that can be fixed can be
fixed with a rescue-boot diskette or CD.
Anyway, check your cables and try again. If that doesn't
work, replace the drive and try again. If that doesn't
work, check the capacitors on the system board (motherboard).
-Siva
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Hi!
I know that my power cable is loose. By power cable I mean the cable that
supplies the power to the hard drives. I know that because my system suddenly
hangs and when I tinker with that cable it suddenly springs back to life.
Nevertheless I am not able to shut it down. It keeps giving errors like " not
able to access hdc .. some number ..Journal aborted" By spinging back to life
I mean that I am able to use the mouse, the keyboard responds but is unable to
open any application.
Does anybody know a solution to this problem. I know that I have to change
those wires. But is such a change possible. Will I have to change the entire
power cable setup?
I have bought a harddisk recently and I don't want to spoil it. So far it
shows 1.1% as non contiguous when performing those regular checks once every 30
mounts of the hard drive. By the way if the Operating system that I use is of
any importance in this regard, I use grub with Windows, Debian and Fedora Core
1. I use Debian 90% of the time and that is where I saw those errors.
Bye!
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