Greetings again,

I was desperate when I posted this message that I started fidling around =
with=20
everything. The problem was resolved when I ENABLED the on-board audio=20
adapter (AC'97) which was previously disabled. I don't know how that affe=
cts=20
the IDE controller but...

Ironically, while 8.1 and Debian now boot happily, 8.0 no longer boots. B=
ut I=20
guess it doesn't matter...

On Sunday 08 December 2002 21:44, Alexandros Karypidis wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a QDI Kinetiz 7E-A motherboard with a vt82c686b VIA IDE controll=
er.
>
> The installation CD for SuSE 8.1 hangs when initializing the controller=
=2E
> The last messages I get from the kernel are:
>
> [...]
> VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci:00:07.1
>         ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>         ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>
> I have tried disabling UDMA in the BIOS, booting with safe settings, us=
ing
> options such as "nodma" and "noautotune" as well as disconnecting the
> DVD/CD-RW and leaving only the HDD online. Nothing works.
>
> As a side note, the same thing happens when I try booting the system wi=
th
> Debian woody (both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels).
>
> Ironically, the system has had SuSE 8.0 installed and working fine for =
many
> months and will happily boot from the SuSE 8.0 installation CD.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? What are the differe=
nces
> among the 8.0 and 8.1 kernel configurations? Is there a way to upgrade
> using the 8.0 kernel?

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To err is human, but to forgive is beyond the scope of the Operating Syst=
em...

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=D0=E1=ED=E5=F0=E9=F3=F4=DE=EC=E9=EF =C8=E5=F3=F3=E1=EB=DF=E1=F2
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=F9=ED=E9=FE=ED & =C4=E9=EA=F4=FD=F9=ED

Alexandros Karypidis
University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.


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