Alex Monaghan writes: > > Help, > > I attempted to install Debian 1.3.1 from the Linux Systems Labs = > "Official" Debian CD onto my father's PC. > > This installed OK from the boot floppy made from the CD. > > When booting from the rescue disk it finds ide0 at irq14 and ide1 at irq = > 15 and all works OK, when booting via LILO or via the install process's = > boot disk it finds ide0 at irq 7 and the md driver fails to load and the = > boot process stops. > > Any suggestions ?
Yes, while the BIOS allows two IDE drives on different IDE busses, my experience has found that most OS's don't like that arrangement. Try re-arranging the hard drives like this: Primary IDE bus: first HD second HD (or cdrom drive if only one HD) Secondary IDE bus: third HD (or cdrom drive if only two HDs) fourth HD (or cdrom drive) Next, if the BIOS is a "plug 'n' pray" and the motherboard has the peripheral controllers built-in, go into the BIOS. Look for the PCI/plug and pray menu and go there. The submenu should allow you to lock IRQs by telling the BIOS that they are "legacy" IRQs. Of course, save it and reboot. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
