Installation problem with Woody

[Rothwellc9]

Hello I have an installation related problem with debian 3(Woody). I am totally new to linux and have probably done something stupid ,but very early in the installation process the installer hangs. My machine has a Pentium 4, an Intel D915G motherboard,1 hard disk and a CDROM .   The last few lines of output from the installer:           PCI_IDE      unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00                      device f9 VID=8086,DID=266f         PCI_IDE      not 100% native mode : will probe IRQS later                                   ide0:  BM-DMA at 0xffa0 - 0xffa7, BIOS settings:                                                     hda: DMA , hdb: PIO             ide1:  BM-DMA at 0xffa8 - 0xffaf, BIOS settings:                                                     hdc: PIO  ,hdd: PIO         PCI_IDE:      unknown controller on PCI bus 00                       device fa,VID=8086,DID=2651                 PCI_IDE:      100% native mode on irq 10               ide2: BM_DMA at 0xd800-d807 BIOS settings:                                              hde:DMA  hdf:PIO                                              hdg:PIO    hdh:PIO           hda: _NEC DVD_RWND 2510A ATAPI CDROM DRIVE         hde: ST380013AS ATA Disk Drive         ide0 at 0x1f0 - 0x1f7,0x3f6 on IRQ 14            MACHINE HANGS.   I have tried to install using the old 2.4 core and this is almost sucessful. A warning appears towards the end ot the installation:                           " Virtual device mapping    Your first IDE hard disk is not connected as the primary master device    (/dev/hda). To get around this most BIOS setups enable emulation so that the    first disk is seen as IDE-0 in the boot environment. This emulation cannot    be detected by Linux or LILO. However,we can define /dev/hde as the first    hard disk in the LILO configuration to allow LILO to take advantage of the    emulation. Would you like to enable the mapping?"   When I finally boot the 2.4 core, I get a barrage of interrupts like this:          "unexpected interrupt ide2 status=0xd0 count =371"   The real device at hde2(which seems to be a DMA device from the installer screen info) seems to be generating interrupts that aren't trapped but, linux thinks hde2 is my swap partition. Why does linux set my hard disk to hde and not hda? And is there anything I can do about it?   Any help gratefully accepted   Chris Rothwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])