Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > reassign 477988 debian-installer > retitle 477988 Document irqpoll in the "special boot parameters" help screen > severity 477988 wishlist > thanks > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 07:18:19AM +0100, Chris Bell wrote: > > Repeatedly stopped reading DVD/CD while searching for hardware and ROM > > drive, so I tried > > > > <alt><F2> > > dmesg | more > > Near end of file, found > > Probing IDE interface ide1 > > hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > > > IRQ 15: Nobody cared, disabling interrupt > > > > This was immediately followed by a string of reports about hdc (CD/DVD) lost > > interrupt, and eventually a hint to try rebooting with the "irqpoll" option. > > > > Tried another installation using > > > > expert irqpoll > > > > no problems, went straight through and re-booted OK. Should irqpoll be > > included in the standard installation proceedure? > > irqpoll really slow down the system and it would be a loss to include it > in the default command-line. However, it is not currently documented in > the help screen alongside other "special boot parameters" for hardware > work-arounds. > > It might worth it to mention it there.
I have. I wonder if irqfixup would be worth trying. It should handle the case of a lost interrupt w/o irqpoll's overhead. -- see shy jo
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