FC 7 Booting exception

[Filipe Garrett]

That error appeared while booting and I don't know how to capture the boot 
output screen (Tried boot.log but it was empty).
Look for the 'BMDMA stat 0x64' string (sorry for the typo).

thanks
FG

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 16:40 +0200, Filipe Garrett wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've recently installed Linux Fedora Core 7 onto a Pentium III 800Mhz computer. 
>> Everything went OK but when I boot a message appeared going something like:
>>
>> ata1.01: Exception Emask 0x0
>> 	BDMA stat 0x64
>>
>> Googled it up but found nothing conclusive. Could it be a hard drive problem? It 
>> would be strange since there's no SMART warnings and this computer used to have 
>> WinXP and no disk problem ever ocurred.
>>
>> 'dmesg' output attached.
>>
>> thanks in adv
>> FG
> I can't find this error in your dmesg listing.
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