Guest souldreamer Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 (edited) Hi. I'm a bit noob. Well, when i try to instal MDK 10.1 Community Edition, in the begining (still in text mode) i see several lines saying: hda: min request size : 1024KiB (or max, i dont remember) hda: lost interrupt Do you know what the problem is? I have a P4 2.8GHz, 60 + 120 Gb of disc, 1Gb of RAM, ATi 9200 and only one DVD+/-RW drive. Edited November 25, 2004 by souldreamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 uuh... are there any partitions on your harddisk? if yes, which size? and which type of harddisk do you use (e.g. ide drive, sata drive,...) i am not sure if the 1gb memory could cause some trouble. some distros have a maximum ram restriction, but i do not know if mdk has the (infamous, old, annoying) 1gb limit... ps.: being a bit "noob" is okay. i am also a noob in certain respects. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 Does the system work fine? Does this only happen in bootup? Does it repeat or only happen once? If it only happens in bootup and the system works fine, i wouldnt worry about it. arctic: 1gb ram has nothing at all to do with his hard disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 yes, i guess you are right, but i only thought about this possibility because one user at linux-web.de forums had too much ram and this irritated his comp to that degree that some of his other hardware (all ide-devices) wasn't identified correctly. don't ask me why this happened. it is a puzzle to me, but once he removed some ram, everything was okay again.... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest souldreamer Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 (edited) They are both IDE disks. The first one, my main disc, have a partition of 40Gb (for windows, dual boot) and 30Gb free (to install mdk). The second one has only one partition with the whole disk size (120 GB) Quoting iphitus: Does the system work fine? - No, i can't even install it Does this only happen in bootup? - on the install bootup Does it repeat or only happen once? - allways, i even tried to boot from 2nd and 3rd cd. EDIT: Windows is working without any problem. Edited November 14, 2004 by souldreamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest souldreamer Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 Solved. Booting with "linux noapic" solved it! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 It's always that flippin' noapic :D. This will probably improve to some extent with 10.2; the kernel is being patched so apic won't be enabled if it's turned off in the BIOS. This should mean a lot more machines with broken APIC support will work without having to pass the noapic option explicitly. So yay for that. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest souldreamer Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 It's the best for them to do. I see so many ppl with this problem and almost anyone gave a working reply (when i searched in google). :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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