[Nelug] Mandrake 9.2 Installation Difficulties.

[john Graham]

Redalpha

it looks like a DMA problem.

You are not over clocking this machine are you?

Try looking at your BIOS settings and turning off any quick boot options.

Please take note of these settings because you will probably be able to 
set them back after you have installed Mandrake.

Then try again.

Since you have two harddisks are you going to duel boot? That is running 
windows off one and Linux on the other.

Johng



Redalpha wrote:

>Dear John and List
>
>I'm sorry if you were put off by my asking to work offlist. I was hoping to 
>spare nelug members the tedium of reading the following:-
>
>I'm new to Linux and can use the desktop ok but as yet have not come to terms 
>with the command line.  I have very little experience of DOS either, come to 
>that!  My experiences with Linux go back to Red Hat 7.1 and failed attempts 
>to install, to success with installing Suse 8.2, Lindows (ugh!), Suse 9.0 and 
>Fedora Core 1. These have all been succesful installations.  However, I would 
>like to try Mandrake 9.2 as I've been advised this suits ex-windows owners 
>well. The problem is that this does not install on my computer. The 3 
>installation discs can install on my son's, so they work.
>My computer has an AMD Athlon XP2000+ Processor, Chipset is SIS5513, 256 MB 
>RAM, two 40 GB hard drives, CD Rom and CDRW.It has an nVidia Riva graphics 
>card,ADSL Router internet connection. On attempted installation the disc 
>freezes in the early stage (not reaching the language selection section) and 
>outputs the following:-
>
>hda: lost interrupt
>hda: host protected area=>1
>hda:lost interrupt
>partition check
>hda<4> hda:dma_timer_expiry:dma status==0X64
>hdc:lost interrupt
>hdd:lost interrupt
>ad infinitum
>
>hdc is cdrom and hdd is cd rw.
>
>I would be interested to know if this is a hardware problem and if I can use 
>the command line installation method to overcome the difficulty.
>
>As a point of interest the Knoppix CD Linux won't play either.
>
>Any help you can give would be appreciated.
>Thanks
>
>
>On Saturday 21 February 2004 8:53 am, you wrote:
>  
>
>>Redalpha,
>>
>>these sort of questions should be answered on this list. Its its main
>>purpose.
>>
>>Without hardware specs and error messages we can only make guesses.
>>
>>If your computer has a low resoultion video card or limited ram then you
>>should install in text mode.
>>
>>Startup from the Installation disk.
>>
>>On startup press F1 key
>>
>>This will put you into the Installation help screen
>>
>>Please read this help page
>>
>>I would think the solution to your problem would be install in text
>>mode.
>>
>>So enter    text    then push enter
>>
>>Then follow the DOS style interface.
>>
>>If this information does not solve your problem please give us more info or
>>take your computer to the meet. I am sure the guys would help you install.
>>
>>
>>Johng
>>
>>Redalpha wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Dear Group
>>>
>>>Would anyone be willing to advise me (off group) as to why I'm having so
>>>much difficulty installing Mandrake 9.2 on my computer? Machine can
>>>install Suse 9, and Fedora, but will not look at the Mandrake Installer!
>>>I think hardware is a problem but have insufficient understanding to
>>>overcome difficulty. Thanks in advance
>>>      
>>>
>
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