Am Mi, den 01.09.2004 schrieb Richard Heldmann um 1:36:
I am trying to install FC2 on a Dell Dimension 8300, with a Seagate
Model ST3120026AS SATA 120Gb hard drive.
The controller is an Intel 82801ED Ultra ATA Storage Controller. I have repartioned the
drive with Partition Magic
and formatted the last 20Gb as ext2. There are no errors on either partition and the
machine boots into XP normally.
Upon starting the installation with the known geometry,
boot: linux hda=14589,255,63
Why do you pass it the CHS geometry? Don't.
I get the following error message:
hda: IRQ probe failed
Anything curious in the motherboard BIOS set? "PnP OS = no" should be
active. Check other settings too, maybe you improperly force something
like the CHS value with boot command line.
hda: no response
hda:non-IDE drive, CHS=14589,255,63
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda Invalid Geometry: 255 Physical heads?
ide-default: hda: Failed to register the driver with ide.c
Kernel panic: ide: default attach failed.
The machine is of course locked up.
Maybe tips from
http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/#AlanCox are helpful if
above checks do not help (I don't know your hardware in specific).
Alexander
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