[100903] in RedHat Linux List
Re: ide irq errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 23 19:10:40 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:47:13 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Remove the Maxblast, make partitions within the BIOS limits,
install Linux. Be sure to let it make a boot diskette during the install.
Then add this line at the top of /etc/lilo.conf:
linear
It's one word all by itself. Then run lilo again, to install
the modified /etc/lilo.conf where it needs to go.
When you reboot, you should be able to make more partitions
using fdisk, and use mke2fs to make filesystems in them,
and then mount and use them.
Yes, old bioses can be a pain.
mmoore@bvemx.ppco.com wrote:
> I'm trying to install redhat 5.1 on a Dell 486D/33 (DX-33)-
> The first problem I had was that it doesn't have a cd-rom-and windows NT won't
> view the filenames properly when trying to use it as an FTP server to load
> redhat, because of the trans.tbl file-but that's a different story. I made a
> dos boot disk to log into my domain-made a FAT16 partition large enough to get
> the redhat directory on it-and it will install great off of the hard drive.
> The real problem is that I have to use a drive overlay (Maxblast) because the
> bios will not detect a drive over 508 MB (Pheonix bios v. 1.01 A13). Maxblast
> will actually load lilo, and give me the choice to boot dos or linux, so lilo
> seems to be working. When the kernel is booting, right after it mounts the
> root filesystem as read-only, I get unccorrectable errors and ide irq timeout
> errors, it will say "ide0 reset success" a few times and then continue to
> boot, but also stating that it is delaying the load of my nic drivers, and I
> get these errors when doing a "make dep ; make clean" so I can't compile the
> kernel either. Since it was obviously made for dos-could the Maxblast EZ BIOS
> software be messing with Linux? If so-is there anything else I can use, or is
> this a common problem with old Dells and Linux? Any info would be great-Thanks
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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