hda: attached ide-disk driver & lost interrupt

esteeven · 04-18-2004, 03:55 PM

Hello - I've just moved my hda and hdb over to a new mobo (Asrock k7s8x) and ddr and case and everything. The hardware config is physically the same but when I boot I get -
hda:attached ide-disk driver
[long pause]
hda:lost interrupt
So ... I booted Knoppix and this failed until I booted "failsafe" - I'm using Knoppix right now and both hda and hdb are there.
I'm using Debian Testing from Knoppix on hda2.

markelo · 04-18-2004, 04:22 PM

You propably switched to ACPI capable motherboard or your new mobo has some problems with devices and ACPI.

If you are using GRUB boot loader you could try adding pci=noacpi at the end of menuitem where vmlinuz or bzlinuz image is loaded.

This isn't a perfect solution but should make sure if things really are ACPI related.

I propably got those image-names wrong because I am now running windows and are too lazy to check.

esteeven · 04-18-2004, 05:06 PM

where would I do this in Lilo??????
# append=""
append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce"

# Boot up Linux by default.
#
default=Linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.24-xfs
label=Linux
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
# restricted
# alias=1

Thanks

markelo · 04-19-2004, 04:57 AM

I am not sure but either you add new append= line like
append="pci=noacpi"

or you add it to one already existing append line like
appen="hdc=ide-scsi pci=noacpi"

esteeven · 04-19-2004, 05:06 PM

hmmmm. it seems that my mobo *is* acpi enabled but append= "pci=noacpi" is failing me horribly. Google suggests that markelo is correct but it ain't working for me. What is different about a "failsafe" boot of Knoppix? - that's what I'm using now and it's fine but the standard Knoppix boot failed.

esteeven · 04-21-2004, 05:04 AM

okay --- I'm a little further down the trail now. If I enter noapic at boot, things seem to move a little further but, I suddenly get

Freeing unused kernel memory : 136k freed
nomce: nomce: No such file or directory
Kernel panic: Attemtped to kill init!

What's going on??? What is nomce?

A worried man.

esteeven · 04-21-2004, 06:43 AM

well well well
I deleted all of my partiitions on hda and and then put them back (I did this because it felt as though I was being productive!!) and then reintalled Knoppix. At boot I added "Linux noapic acpi=off nodma nomce" and whoa! it booted. I narrowed down the boot parameters to "noapic" and all is well again in my world.
Wierd.
But solved!