From: EB3CZS Xavier Crehueras (ouog@drkw.com)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 12:19:11 EET
Hello all,
I just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 woody on a Compaq Presario 920 a few days ago. I had to install it with a 2.2 kernel because the 2.4 kernel kept locking on boot with a CPU exception. Once installed, I compiled a kernel 2.4.19 and it worked with the exception of pcmcia. Loading pcmcia cardmgr crashed the kernel with a CPU exception.
Hope this helps.
73s de Xavi
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:35:47 +1300
"Dexy" <ctw@isa-koeln.de> wrote:
> Greetings, all
>
> I tried Mandrake 6.5 on this machine, but couldn't get the screen to set
> up. Someone suggested newer linux, so I downloaded RH8 and made a bootable
> CD install set. The Disk 1 boots fine, but it only gets as far as the
> partition check (bear with me, this was written down from the screen):
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0. Please try using
> pci=biosirq
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
> ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8080-0x8087, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8088-0x808f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: FUJITSU MHR2020AT, ATA DISK drive
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> hdc: Compaq CRN-8245B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> hda: 39070080 sectors (20004MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2432/255/63, (U)DMA
> hdc: ATAPI 24x CD-ROM drive, 128KB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> Partition check:
> hda:spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
>
> (there is a pause at hda: then spurious... comes up)
> At this point the machine locks up, with the drive light lit.
>
> Using pci=biosirq (see line 4 above) makes no difference. What is device
> 00:10.0?
>
> The partition it is checking is the default 18GB WinXP. Is it actually
> checking this? I'd have thought it would be hda1, but it's only showing as
> hda. I've left the machine going for 1/2-hour, it surely would have checked
> it by then if it was going to.
>
> IRQ7 is usually something to do with the // port, no? Then why is it
> happening during boot? There's a facility do disable the port during boot,
> but this makes no difference, nor does changing from Bi-dir to EPP to
> EPP/ECP.
>
> Incidentally, the // port is the reason I'm trying linux - XP trashes it
> as far as use for "Push to talk" for an Amateur Radio transciever, and
> there's no Com port I can use :-(. It works fine under 98se, but I can't
> get screen drivers.
>
> Is there anyone out there who can give me tips on how to get this going?
>
> Cheers
> Dex ZL2DEX
>
>
>
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