Dell, HT and SATA = no good

**RealNitro** · 10-28-2003, 07:42 PM

Hi, I used knoppix on my old computer, but on my new one I get stuck at booting. My system is a Dell dimension 8300 P4 3Ghz, with HT, and a SATA harddisk. Unfortunately it seems to be one of the worst combinations possible for using knoppix: the HT gave me some trouble, and now I get 7 or 8 times 'hda: lost interrupt' at boottime, then the procedure continues, but the system hangs when knoppix searches for the partitions. I know this has been asked before on the forum, but I there were no answers that could solve the problem. One weird thing is that, when I use the dma cheatcode, the code of my hd is displayed correctly... (SL...). Is there a cheatcode to solve my problem (like disabeling hd detection)? The cheatcode combinations I tried are:
'knoppix nosmp' - solves the HT problem
'knoppix nosmp failsafe' - 'hda: lost interrupt'
'knoppix nosmp failsafe dma' - idem

**RealNitro** · 11-02-2003, 04:43 PM

Anyone?

**Miguel** · 11-04-2003, 10:53 PM

I have a P4 2.8Ghz with HT and SATA (intel 875) and in fact Knoppix is the only distribution I have been able to boot on it for the moment. I use just

knoppix dma

When it boots it gives an error regarding the presence of only one processor, but don't care about it.

Hope it helps

**rickenbacherus** · 11-05-2003, 02:20 AM

Originally Posted by Miguel

I have a P4 2.8Ghz with HT and SATA (intel 875) and in fact Knoppix is the only distribution I have been able to boot on it for the moment. I use just

knoppix dma

When it boots it gives an error regarding the presence of only one processor, but don't care about it.

Hope it helps

Try this:

boot: knoppix dma nosmp

**RealNitro** · 11-05-2003, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by rickenbacherus

Originally Posted by Miguel

I have a P4 2.8Ghz with HT and SATA (intel 875) and in fact Knoppix is the only distribution I have been able to boot on it for the moment. I use just

knoppix dma

When it boots it gives an error regarding the presence of only one processor, but don't care about it.

Hope it helps

Try this:

boot: knoppix dma nosmp

Or just go in to your BIOS and enable the HT.

**RealNitro** · 11-05-2003, 02:56 PM

Ok, I retried to boot, with HT enabled and with 'knoppix dma' as cheatcode. Once again the same result, it got stuck at [...]creating \etc\fctab . Don't shoot me if that last term is wrong

. Even waiting for 20 minuts didn't help (you can't say I gave up too easily).
Miguel, did you change something in your BIOS? And what version of knoppix do you use?