Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:27:29 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Upgraded from 2.2.5 (RH6) to 2.3.18---ATAPI CD-ROM freezes machine while booting |
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On Mon, Sep 13 1999, Stuart Inglis wrote: > > I suppose I know what causes the bug in 2.2.5, namely our > > old enemy probe_cmos_for_drives(). > > This has always been a strange, buggy routine, but long ago > > it bit fewer people, because not so many people had both IDE > > and SCSI on one machine. > > > > Please try to disable probe_cmos_for_drives() > > (by replacing the #ifdef __i386__ at the start by #if 0). > > and report on whether 2.2.5 and 2.3.18 show improvement. > > I don't have the source to 2.2.5 handy and since 2.3.18 is the only one > crashing I made the change you suggested in 2.3.18. Unfortunately it made no > difference and the boot process halts at the same place.
Does booting with hda=noprobe hda=cdrom make a difference?
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * http://www.kernel.dk
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