From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267211AbUHDCVf (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:21:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267231AbUHDCVe (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:21:34 -0400 Received: from mail006.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.63]:10972 "EHLO mail006.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267211AbUHDCUb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:20:31 -0400 References: <1091570098.1612.27.camel@localhost> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Con Kolivas To: jacquesf@wciatl.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Booting 2.6.x slows to almost to a halt when detecting hard drives on Dell Inspiron 5150 Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:20:26 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jacques Fortier writes: > Hi, > > I've had issues getting 2.6 kernels to boot. It seems to be an issue > either with my Intel ICH4 IDE controller or my Hitachi Travelstar 60GB > disk. > > I'm trying to get 2.6 working on a Dell Inspiron 5150. I've been running > 2.4 for a while without any problems. I've witnessed this problem in the > Debian 2.6.7 and 2.6.6 kernel packages, 2.6.7 compiled from the Debian > source code, and 2.6.7 compiled from the vanilla kernel.org source. > > Everything seems to work fine until the hard drive detection starts. > Since I'm not sure how much of this stuff if relelvant, I've > painstakingly transcribed a bunch of the output > > ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 > PCI: enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) > ICH4: chipset revision 1 > ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA hdb:pio > hda: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-324F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > Using anticipatory io scheduler > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 0x3f6 on irq 14 > hdc HTS548060M9AT00, ATA DISK drive > ide1 at 0x170-0x177 0x376 on irq 15 > hdc: max request size: 1024KiB > hdc: lost interrupt > hdc: lost interrupt > hdc: lost interrupt Have you tried booting with various apic and acpi options? Try noapic and / or acpi=off see if that helps. Cheers, Con