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05-10-2006, 11:44 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2006
Posts: 2
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Linux gives a bad message while booting
When linux boots, it just hangs up and repeatedly gives the following message
hda: DMA interrupt recovery
hda: lost interrupt
the version is Mandrake Linux 10.1
Someone please help me because it is urgent, iam a student and i have to finish my project on linux platform.
thnx
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05-10-2006, 11:49 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Olympia, WA, USA
Distribution: Fedora, (K)Ubuntu
Posts: 4,187
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If you have "enhanced mode" for your IDE drives selected in your BIOS, try changing it to "compatibility mode." That "fixed" a similar problem for me.
Alternative possibility: Loose or oxidized drive cables. Unplug and re-plug in each drive cable to "clean" the connection.
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05-10-2006, 09:25 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Bonaire, Leeuwarden
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
Posts: 5,196
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I have these error messages on my server for 3 years. Never lost a bit.
Uhm... if you run a fschk and you don't get any errors, maybe you can ignore it.
jlinkels
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05-11-2006, 07:26 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2006
Posts: 2
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before recieving this message , there is also a message like this
hdd: IRQ query failed
hdc: IRQ query failed
can someone please help me to sort this problem, because linux is just not starting, it just hangs up there with above messages on the screen.
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