Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:31:42 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 |
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Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted >>> a couple of times now, here's another: >>> [ 0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. >>> [ 0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override >>> what the heck is that trying to tell me to do, in some sort of broken >>> english? >> A lot of NVIDIA-chipset motherboards have BIOS problems where they >> include an incorrect ACPI interrupt override for the timer interrupt, >> which tends to cause the system to fail to boot due to the timer >> interrupt not working. The kernel normally ignores ACPI interrupt >> overrides on the timer interrupt for NVIDIA chipsets for this reason. >> Unfortunately on some such boards the override is actually correct and >> needed, and so this actually causes problems. Hence the >> acpi_use_timer_override option. >> >> In any case this is unlikely to have anything to do with your problem, >> since if that was messed up you likely would never have even booted. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > In this case, there seems to be a buglet. I turned on the nvidia/amd drives > under the ATA section of the menu, and turned off the pata_amd under the sata > menu in xconfig. > > But I've tried twice now and it fails to build the initrd because the pata_amd > module is on the missing list. Of course its missing, I didn't have it > built... > > Next?
Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, a lot of distributions use this to generate the initrd. If there's references to pata_amd it'll try and include it.
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