From: Vincent Cunniffe (vcunniff at domain arbgroup.com)
Date: Mon 18 Oct 1999 - 10:25:45 IST
ilug-admin at domain linux.ie wrote:
>
> Tried to install RedHat 6.1 on my brand new machine.
>
> First, I had a 4.2 system that was upgraded to a 5.1 system that was
> upgraded to 6.0 a few months back. Didn't work - just as it was starting to
> upgrade the RPMs, python core dumped, and the machine rebooted. Lovely.
>
> So, next cunning plan was, to try install it fresh on another disk - a
> brand new ATA66 disk, I typed "linux ide2=0xd800,0xd809,11" to get the
> machine to see my ATA66 drive on a HPT366 controller, as /dev/hde. Didn't
> quite work - when I tried to fdisk it, fdisk failed, and there was about 20
> lines of IDE-reset/timeout errors on the log screen. Must have got some
> setting wrong there.
>
> Ah well. Time to put the ATA66 drive on IDE0, and try again. This time, it
> seemed to work - it install fine, and quite quickly too. But, on the first
> reboot, it hung just as it was loading the initial ramdisk. Rebooting, with
> "linux-up initrd=" didn't make a difference. Anyone seen this before ?
>
> Is it just me, or is 6.1 crap ? Is it just me, or are my home computers
> cursed ?
I believe that the HPT66 driver specifically states that you cannot boot
from it yet...
Vin
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