Re: Upgraded from 2.2.5 (RH6) to 2.3.18---ATAPI CD-ROM freezes machine while booting
Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:27:29 +0200
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?
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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