Cyberdude93 Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 I downloaded and burned the ISO. To make things more clear this is how it went for me on a working machine: Got the start up screen and pressed enter A lot of text comes and goes It loads files in to memory quite quickly You're at the install GUI I get the startup screen alright (Press Enter to install, F1 for more options), and everything's fine up until it tried to attach IDE drivers. I kept getting the message "hda: Lost interrupt" every 30 or so seconds. After a few messages it would give a message that sounds like a working one would get (can't remember exactly) then it would do the same for my 2nd hard drive (hdb). I would then get the screen where it WOULD say loading into memory, but it doesn't yet. Eventually, it slowly starts to load stuff into memory, but hangs mid-way. I never get to the GUI. If there's no solutions I'd like to try Mandrake 9.1, but I can't find any versions (and no one seems to be seeding the torrent). Any ideas? Hardware specs: ASRock K7S8X Motherboard (and this is probably the problem, it's given Knoppix some problems too) 512MB DDR Ram 2400+ (2ghz) Athlon XP Geforce 4 ti4200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 try to use nodma and/or noacpi at the boot prompt and run the installer again. The installer still has some issues that are not a problem once linux is installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdude93 Posted January 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 (edited) Thanks, I'll try that now EDIT: It didn't work. However I have a really bad motherboard, so I wouldn't blame mandrake. I'm currently downloading Mandrake 9.1 now. Edited January 10, 2004 by Cyberdude93 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 (edited) try linux noapic acpi=off vga=normal add ide=nodma if the noapic doesn't do it for ya. Oh, and turn off Plug-N-Play in the bios. Edited January 10, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 Make sure the jumper pins are set correctly for master/slave and make sure the cables are good. Switch them out if you have anouther set laying around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVH Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 Disabling APIC (in BIOS or using noapic option in boot) solved my hdx lost interrupts with SATA RAID drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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