Hello there,

I was trying to install Mandrakelinux 10.1 on Compaq Armada E500 from a
bootable DVD, but installation process halts after these messages, from
those last 2 are troublesome:

Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100*37
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing
enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:09.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:09.0
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3420-0x3427, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdaio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC25N020ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Compaq DVD-ROM SD-C2402, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sector (20003 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63,
UDMA(33)
hda: hda1
mice: PC/2 mouse device common for all mice
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
synaptics reset failed
synaptics reset failed


Any suggestions?
thanks

Kappa