Mandrake 10.1 boot problem

**docetes** · 08-07-2005

i just tried to intall mandrake 10.1 but i'm having problems booting up
my machine just seems to come up with a load of errors. I think its something to do with the dvd writer but i really can't be sure.

Nvidia GeForce FX5200
Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz
512 ram
PHILIPS DVD+RW SDVD6004, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

and the problem i think i'm having is

Code:

Probing IDE interdace ide1...
hdc&#58; IC25N040ATMT04-0, ATA DISK drive 
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15
hdc&#58; max request size 1024 KiB
hdc&#58; lost interupt
hdc&#58; lost interupt
hdc&#58; lost interupt
hdc&#58; 78140160 sectors&#40;4007&#41;MB w/1740 KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, VDMA
hdc&#58; lost interupt
hdc&#58; lost interupt
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0&#58;<4>hdc&#58;

thanks for your help
dave

**AlexK** · 08-11-2005

The only thing i can think of is to make sure that the ide cable from the dvd writer to the ide slot on the motherboard is plugged in properly at both ends, if this doesn't seem to resolve the problems, try a different ide cable.

**LondoJowo** · 08-11-2005

Couple of questions.

Is this drive a new addition? If so did you hook it up as a slave on the same cable as your harddrive? Slave on cable with a CD drive? If it's on the same cable as the harddrive you should hook it up to the IDE2 port. If it's on the same cable as the CD Drive you should make it master, setup the CD drive as the slave, and hook up the DVD writer on the end of the cable and the CD to the middle connector.

**docetes** · 08-12-2005

its a dell laptop. Inspiron 5150. I installed mandrake 9.2 on it and it worked fine. so i don't think its the cables

**LondoJowo** · 08-12-2005

If SuSE 9.2 worked fine on it I would think the problem lies in the Mandrake kernel.

I've never had any luck using Mandrake/Mandriva on my Thinkpad T22 or T40. I've had the best luck running 9.0/9.1 on the T22 and 9.2/9.3 on the T40.

SimplyMepis 3.3.2 test02 seems to be working ok with the exception of ACPI and it's partially working.

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