I am having trouble booting Debian Linux on a new PC with Windows ME already installed,
128 MB RAM, CD, DVD, etc. I'd be grateful for any help.
Thank you,
- Gene Cooperman
---
It appears that Linux is not recognizing my hard disk. It is a 45 MB disk.
Initially, I tried a Debian CD, Slink and a half, but when I saw a HOWTO,
I switched to trying the compact disk images for 2.2.18pre21 from the Debian
site (i386/current/images-1.44/compact/).
I always get: hda: VP_IDE not 100% native: will probe IRQ's later
hda: not responding, (status 0x1a), resetting
hda: not responding
hdb: not responding, (status 0x1a), resetting
hdb: not responding
hda: pi0
hdb: pio
When I use floppy images for 2.2.18pre21, I successfully use the rescue floppy
(although it reports the hda problems above), and I successfully use
the root floppy. I then select to load additional device drivers
since it is not recognizing any hard disk. After inserting
the dev-1 floppy, It tries and replies "Cannot mount the floppy. Stop"
This happened with two separate dev-1 floppies that I made.
My floppy images were made from:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/
My disk is (according to Microsoft System_Tools/System_Information:
Western Digital: WDC WD450AA-00BAA0 LBA
42,934 MB, Ultra DMA4
Drive C: FAT32 with 22.39 GB + 21.51 GB free
(I successfully resized the Windows partition)
63 Sectors/Track, 16,383 Cylinders, 87,930,864 Sectors, 262,128 Tracks, 16
Tracks/Cyl.
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
IDE Controller:
VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller,
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo): IRQ 14
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo): IRQ 15
From the BIOS:
IDE Controller: Bus 0, Dev 4, Func. 1, Vendor ID 1106, Device ID 0571
Dev Class: IDE Controller, IRQ 14/15
Under Conrol_Panel/System/Hard_Disk_Controllers/VIA_Bus_Master_...,
the Settings say: Dual IDE Channel Settings: Default
(and I could optionally choose to enable one or both channels)
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
