Topic: hda lost interrupt

[Rob Delissen]

I'm trying to instaal 5.12 on a Gigabyte GA-8IDML mailboard, on a Maxtor 541DX harddisk.
Installation goes ok, after the first reboot I get the following errors:
irq probe failed
hda lost interrupt.

[Tony Z]

Rob,

Do you get two choices when you boot up?  like "e-smith" and "e-smith up"

Tony Z

[Rob Delissen]

Yes I do. And when I use "e-smith up" I can boot correctly

[Tony Z]

Rob,

I was having the same problem on another machine.  The "E-Smith Up" means your motherboard has two processors and it is only going to use the first processor since it cannot utilize both.  I think this also happens when you only have one processor and it does not recognize the motherboard or something.   At any rate, you can boot to "e-smith up" and everything will work fine.  If you want to boot without chossing each time follow the steps in this posting http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=5040.msg17706#msg17706  and it will default to "E-Smith Up".  I have done this on another machine so if you have trouble let me know.  Hope this helps.

Tony Z

[Rob Delissen]

Problem solved: there are no two processors. Changing lilo to start e-smith-up by default did the trick. Can I buy you a beer, sometime?

[Tony Z]

Thanks for letting me know it worked out!    I just got done doing that about a week or so ago and I have actually only used Linux and this software about a month so I am happy that I could actually contribute back to the community.

[Michael]

Thats a nice trick, but i have several dell poweredge servers with 2 xeon cpus, and i want to use boths cpus

I think, it is a kernel prob, cause i tried it with an actual release of red hat and it works.

Greetings from Michael

[Tony Z]

I think they said the next version of SME will have the latest Linux kernal.  The current version does not have the latest kernal, but I do not know much about that part so I cannot make any suggestions.

Cheers,

Tony Z

[alienjones]

I found the advise on how to fix the issue did not work.
When I looked at the lilo templates it wanted to grab the existing lilo.conf to preserver it's settings so I altered the real file - the one which says not to alter it!
and deleted reference to a SMP image.
I ran lilo from the prompt.
The message said added esmith-up*
Now when it boots there is only one option: esmith-up. It's booted about 10 times now and seems to be a permanent fix.
AJ

[Tony Z]

I found that it worked great.  Are you sure you signaled the event?  When following the fix step by step it does rebuild and boot.

[jamson]

I have the same problem with 2 options to boot on a dell server.

Following the instruction on the above thread running /sbin/lilo as root doesnt fixed the problem.

[root@e-smith root]# /sbin/lilo
Added esmith *
Added esmith-up

Did I miss anything?

[kris s]

i fixed mine now.
You must do this:

-  Edit  /etc/lilo.conf
-  default = e-smith      to
   default = e-smith up
- save changes n exit.
- type: /sbin/lilo

it then says
[root@e-smith root]# /sbin/lilo
Added esmith
Added esmith-up *