can't boot any OS on my Desktop!

[kmitnick]

I have two computers at home, a laptop and a desktop, i can run a LiveCD of any distro on my laptop but on my desktop i have these errors { while I am trying to boot BT4 which is Ubuntu 8.10 based }

hda : dma timeout error status 0x58 driveready seekcomplete
ide : failed opcode was unknown

many times then I/O errors and system got stucked

I have two physical Hard Drives:
- 40GB old one
- 80GB new one
both IDE

so wut'swrong??
btw: I ran them through smartmontools and both passed

so any help appreciated

[bager1]

What is BT4?

[devils casper]

Try ide=nodma kernel option.

[kmitnick]

bager1 BT4 stands for Back Track 4 it is a linux distro for penetration testers,
devils casper how to edit the kernel option???? the LiveCD does not boot at all

[devils casper]

Doesn't it show any kind of Menu at startup? Most of LiveCDs allow to add kernel options at startup.

[kmitnick]

yeah i will give a shot and post back again
thnx

[kmitnick]

i tried to add ide=nomda to the line when it boots
/boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper nopersistent rw quiet vga=0x317 ide=nomda

but same error

[kmitnick]

is it possible that the IDE cables are damaged or so???

[D-cat]

According to this kernel documentation, ide=nodma is not a valid option. To disable DMA for all IDE devices (PATA and SATA), the correct kernel boot option is

libata.dma=0

See if that helps

[kmitnick]

thnx D-Cat i will try that and get back with result
btw another issue showed up while trying to compile sth on my laptop (kubuntu 8.10) when i try to ./configure I get that there are no KDE libraries, and i have kde-devel installed