Hi,
I just installed linux on our college P4.
Red Hat 7.0.
It was the first time I asked it to install 'everything'.
On booting I found three images - linux, linux-smp, linux-up.
I guess smp is self explained.
But when I booted into the image called 'linux', it wouldn't probe
the Hard disk IRQ correctly.It said:
hda: IRQ probe failed
....
Now when I booted into the image called 'linux-up' it did so without
any errors.
My initial guess at an explanation is that the kernels are processor
specific. 'linux' is probably for generic 386s and 'linux-up' worked
because it was for higher processors.
In other words I suspect that the IRQ allotments in the two cases are
different.
Could somebody pl. confirm this or suggest an alternative explanation?
Oh, and BTW I had asked for kernel 2.4 and 2.2 on a cd a few days ago.
I've got them now. Anybody else requiring the same can get in touch
with me.
ciao
abhijeet