Hi
I'm a bit new to Linux so excuse me for asking trivial questions.
I tried to install Debian yesterday and made it as far as past selecting
a color display :)
when I try to run cfdisk on my hdb it exits with an error message
(I didn't note it down, sorry) I looked closer at the startup messages
and there were a few lines like
<4> hdb: irq timeout: status=0x50 {Driveready SeekComplete}
with lines like
<4> ide0: reset: success
in between until I get
<4> hdb: irq timeout: status=0x50 {Driveready SeekComplete DataRequest}
followed by
<4> ide0: reset: success
<4> hdb: irq timeout: status=0x50 {Driveready SeekComplete}
<4> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40, sector 0
<4> unable to read partition table
I'm aware of the possibility to give the physical description of the
harddisk at the boot prompt, but I have this silly IBM BIOS that
doesn't report the hard disk dimensions and I hoped there was another
solution.
My system is an IBM Intellistation with two hard disks, a 9GB scsi
and a 6.4 Gb ide. The scsi has no problems but I want to install
Debian on the ide disk. I have two primary partitions of 2 GB each
allocated on the ide disk and want to have Debian in the last 2.4 GB. I
use a boot manager called System Commander to boot from the first
primary partition of the scsi disk. It overwrites the MBR of the scsi
disk but I don't think it messes with the ide disk.
I have Debian 2.0 released around August with kernel version 2.0.34.
If there is anyone who knows why the problem occurs and possible
solutions I would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance, Oli
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