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 -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 01:50:42 up 1 day, 23:07, load average: 1.06, 1.15, 1.18
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