On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Gerald Turner wrote: Hi Gerald,
> A friend of mine enrolled in some programming classes and just bought > himself a new computer. We were putting the system together last night > and I ran into a serious problem while trying to install linux. The > debian boot disk (resc1440.bin from 1997-10-13 and 1997-08-01) died just > after the kernel was loaded and booting, after about 10 kernel boot > messages the system rebooted itself (too quick to read just what the > last messages were, maybe PCI stuff). The system is an AMD K6 200Mhz, > Iwill P55XB2 motherboard, 64Mb, 4.3Gb IBM Ultra DMA IDE drive. I > thought that the new IDE might have trouble with linux while we were > buying the hardware, but I never would have guessed that linux would > blow up like that. Has anybody seen this behavior with the debian > disks, > or linux before? Has anyone tried the new Ultra DMA with linux? > I have an Ultra DMA drive (quantum fireball ST 6.4Gb), with a Asus PL297 Motherboard (PII 266, oc'd to 300) LX Chipset. I havent seen this problem at all. Although I don't use U-DMA drive for linux (if the U-DMA was the your friend is having, I would have thought it would caused me a problem as well when the drive is probed), it hasnt caused me any problems at all (I booted from the LSL CD-Rom when I first installed - and now use a custom kernel). Sorry I can't be of more help. Dave +-------------------------------------+ | Dave Cook Perth, Western Australia | | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | on IRC as Cevad | +-------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
