RE: 1.3.1 Setup with ULTRA DMA disk
[snip]
> When booting from the rescue disk it finds ide0 at irq14 and ide1 at irq =
> 15 and all works OK, when booting via LILO or via the install process's =
> boot disk it finds ide0 at irq 7 and the md driver fails to load and the =
> boot process stops.
>
> Any suggestions ?
Yes, while the BIOS allows two IDE drives on different IDE busses, my
experience has found that most OS's don't like that arrangement. Try
re-arranging the hard drives like this:
Primary IDE bus:
first HD
second HD (or cdrom drive if only one HD)
Secondary IDE bus:
third HD (or cdrom drive if only two HDs)
fourth HD (or cdrom drive)
Next, if the BIOS is a "plug 'n' pray" and the motherboard has the peripheral
controllers built-in, go into the BIOS. Look for the PCI/plug and pray menu
and go there. The submenu should allow you to lock IRQs by telling the BIOS
that they are "legacy" IRQs. Of course, save it and reboot.
[contd]
Looks a good suggestion the BIOS is plug n pray, I'll change the BIOS setup and give that a try.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to read this mail until after I came back from my parents, so I'll have to try it in a few weeks.
Thanks for you help
Alex Monaghan
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