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