From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2003-11-06 01:11:30
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Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On 5-11-2003 22:10, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > >> On 5-11-2003 00:07, I wrote: >> >> >>> It isn't anywhere near me, and BTW it's already in (sadly 20 >>> kilometres away). Persistence pays! >> >> >> >> I've got it, but it doesn't quite work yet. >> >> It manages to recognize the SCSI controller (AM53C974) to which the >> CD-ROM is attached without me having to tell it that, but ultimately >> it stops somewhere in the process when it needs to load the >> etc.tar.bz2 off some storage medium. It apparently can't find any USB >> storage, which is often the case on pre-USB machines, but then stops; >> it does not even try to access the floppy drive. The kernel complains >> about a "Floppy controller not found". >> >> Also, the kernel has problems with the HDD, a 64 MB Apacer S-ADM, but >> it could be that the real problem is with the filesystem on it >> instead. Anyway, it keeps telling me "hda: lost interrupt", >> "DriveReady SeekComplete Error", "DriveStatusError". >> >> It wants to do a partition check on it >> ("/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>hda: lost interrupt"), tries >> out some more SCSI/RAID drivers in the mean time, and keeps telling >> me about hda losing its interrupt. In the end, it says: >> >> waiting until usb-storage driver has initialized all devices ... >> searching for configuration media >> >> and finally >> >> Please insert Configuration Media and press 'ENTER' >> >> Having inserted the floppy with the bzipped etc tarball already, I >> press Enter and find it does not even try to access the floppy drive. >> >> Any hints? > > > To add to the confusion: the standard final 1.0.1 does not work > either. I have just restored a 0.5 boot floppy and tried the old 0.5 > CD-ROM, and that still works (I initially thought it might be a > problem with the system itself, which I hadn't switched on for a > couple of weeks). > For me it looks like that Kernel 2.4.22 doesn't like your machine. We use the vanilla kernel, so there's not much we can do here. I would wait for Kernel 2.4.23 and would give it another try then. cya Heiko |