Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stuart Inglis" <> | Subject | RE: Upgraded from 2.2.5 (RH6) to 2.3.18---ATAPI CD-ROM freezes machine while booting | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:42:58 +1200 |
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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?
Nope. Still the same old freeze. :-(
cheers Stuart
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