Hi all,

Ive been reading a few threads in thie forum and decided to post my question. Im completely new to linux so i decided to install red hat 9 on my olf P200 PC here at home. Everything went just fine with the install but when i boot from hard disk no matter what parameter i pass the boot loader (i tried lilo and grub) it ALWAYS fails at the same prompt

My bios is AMIBIOS Megatrends release 11/20/1997s

PriMaster Type=user Size=6149 Cyln13328 Head=15 WPCom=0 Sec=63 LBAmode=on Blkmode=on PIOmode=4 32bitmode=on

PriSlave=CDROM PIO mode=4 32bitmode=off

SecMaster=CDROM PIOmode=4 32bitmode=off

SecSlave=notinstalled

The PC is a 200Mhx pentium with 64MB RAM


the boot up screen shows the followign before the failure
....
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM diaks of 4096size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:01.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode will probe irqs later
SiS5597 ATA 33 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: LTN301, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c03944a0. I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-32123S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/81KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA(33)
ide=floppey driver 0.99.newhide
Partition check;
hda:



i read the thread ../questions/archive/18/2002/09/3/30511 but it didnt make the problem go away.

Any suggestions guys? I really want to get this linux platform running, we have a little FTP server at work running red hat 9 and its really reliable. Im fed up with windows all the viruses and the cost of everything.

Any help would be great. I dont understand too much about the filesystems / mounting and the details that you see on this board sometime, so please treat me like Ive never seen a PC before and I'll be able to follow you.

Cheers

Hey! Someone throw me a bone here PLEASE!

What did I say, loads of people have looked at this but no one answered. Apologies if I insulted anyone...

Any suggestions? Please?

Will it boot of the floppy you made?

No, it does the same thing with the floppy. The furthest Ive got is booting from the red hat 9 CD and running the "linux rescue" utility. I then can type "chroot /mnt/sysimage" to get a command prompt and look around at folders and files.

Im not sure if im looking at the hard drive here or the CDROM!