I am getting this error within first few seconds of launching the
Slackware 9.1 installation on a Dell Dimension 4600. Does anyone have
any clues as to what is going on?

hda: ide device driver attached

Thank you

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Doublehelix wrote:
> I am getting this error within first few seconds of launching the
> Slackware 9.1 installation on a Dell Dimension 4600. Does anyone have
> any clues as to what is going on?
>
> hda: ide device driver attached

maybe because you have an ide type disk unit attached?
that's a perfectly normal boot message then.
why do you think this is an error?




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Doublehelix wrote:

> I am getting this error within first few seconds of launching the
> Slackware 9.1 installation on a Dell Dimension 4600. Does anyone have
> any clues as to what is going on?
>
> hda: ide device driver attached
>
> Thank you

That's not an error, it's an informational message. It's telling you it's
using an ide device driver for your primary master ide device. Unless you
don't have a primary master ide drive, it's perfectly normal.

MikeyD <m_donaghy50@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1084468450.8603.1@echo.uk.clara.net>...
> Doublehelix wrote:
>
> > I am getting this error within first few seconds of launching the
> > Slackware 9.1 installation on a Dell Dimension 4600. Does anyone have
> > any clues as to what is going on?
> >
> > hda: ide device driver attached
> >
> > Thank you
>
> That's not an error, it's an informational message. It's telling you it's
> using an ide device driver for your primary master ide device. Unless you
> don't have a primary master ide drive, it's perfectly normal.

Well, the problem is, my installation never goes past that message.
It just hangs up there. Now that you've explained stuff a bit, I
realize that my hard drive is SATA capable and there is no primary
master ide drive in the system. Apparently this is causing the
hangup. I wonder if there is no support for SATA capable disks in
bare.i kernel that was included in Slack 9.1? Do you know how could I
get around this? Thank you.

Vikram

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Doublehelix dared to utter,
> Do you know how could I
> get around this? Thank you.

You'll possibly have to compile a custom kernel and build an install
disk that includes that kernel, or write that kernel to a floppy disk,
boot with it, and proceed with the installation. You'll of course have
to use the kernel on the floppy disk.

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>> > I am getting this error within first few seconds of launching the
>> > Slackware 9.1 installation on a Dell Dimension 4600. Does anyone have
>> > any clues as to what is going on?
>> >
>> > hda: ide device driver attached
>> >
>> > Thank you
>>
>> That's not an error, it's an informational message. It's telling you it's
>> using an ide device driver for your primary master ide device. Unless you
>> don't have a primary master ide drive, it's perfectly normal.
>
> Well, the problem is, my installation never goes past that message.
> It just hangs up there. Now that you've explained stuff a bit, I
> realize that my hard drive is SATA capable and there is no primary
> master ide drive in the system. Apparently this is causing the
> hangup. I wonder if there is no support for SATA capable disks in
> bare.i kernel that was included in Slack 9.1? Do you know how could I
> get around this? Thank you.

IIRC there isn't any support for SATA in bare.i, or any other slack kernel
for that matter, as it's something that's only really getting supported in
2.6. All I can suggest is compiling your own (2.6) kernel and making a
bootdisk out of it, or trying another distro's kernel.

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Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Doublehelix dared to utter,
> > Do you know how could I
> > get around this? Thank you.

> You'll possibly have to compile a custom kernel and build an install
> disk that includes that kernel, or write that kernel to a floppy disk,
> boot with it, and proceed with the installation. You'll of course have
> to use the kernel on the floppy disk.

> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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Doublehelix <neurospora@hotmail.com> schrieb:
> Well, the problem is, my installation never goes past that message.
> It just hangs up there. Now that you've explained stuff a bit, I
> realize that my hard drive is SATA capable and there is no primary
> master ide drive in the system. Apparently this is causing the
> hangup. I wonder if there is no support for SATA capable disks in
> bare.i kernel that was included in Slack 9.1? Do you know how could I
> get around this? Thank you.

There is a sata.i bootdisk in /unsupported. It's made for Slackware 9.0,
but as long as the rootdisks are from 9.1, it should work.

ftp://ftp.kpn.be/pub/slackware/unsupported/sata.i