From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) Description of problem: RedHat 7.1 install to the IDE drive appeared to be successful. Following the install the system was rebooted, kernel startup errors are displayed and the system hangs. The last messages on the console are: Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hda: irq timeout: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: irq timeout: error=0x84 {DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 Now the system is hung - no response to keyboard input Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Power on system 2.Watch it fail 3. Actual Results: See console errors reported in description - it's dead Expected Results: ---- Additional info
Could you try adding "ide=nodma" to the lilo prompt ? (eg type ctrl-x to go to the text mode lilo screen, then type "linux ide=nodma")
OK - works great - that was easy Thanks