The motherboard is a BX Slot 1 board. I have installed Win98 and sarge. In sarge, which use kernel 2.4, I have successfully disabled ide probing.
The board's ide interface is OK, because I have used IDE disk and cdrom before. It's not a hardware problem. The problem is with kernel 2.6 I just want to disable ide probing during boot. --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:38:37PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I install etch on an old system, but get boot messages below: > > > > Nov 10 17:44:40 debian kernel: hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffff7f8) > > Nov 10 17:44:40 debian kernel: hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffff7f8) > > Nov 10 17:44:40 debian kernel: hda: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting > > drive > > > Probing takes too much time. As I use scsi disk, I want to disable probing, > > so I read files in > > kerenl-doc-2.6 package and change a line in menu.lst to: > > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sda4 ro noisapnp > > hda=noprobe > > > > After grub-install and reboot, "hda=noprobe" does not have any effect. > > How old is the system? > > I've found that linux tends to drop support for old hardware as time > passes. It could also be a hardware problem. > > However, before you throw out the drives or the system, I'd suggest, as > a fast and easy test, grabbing the OpenBSD floppy42.fs bootfloppy > (assuming that the old box boots from floppy) and try booting it. If it > completes booting, go to a shell and check dmesg and the logs to look > for any errors. > > If there are errors, then it may be a hardware issue. If there aren't, > it may be a linux kernel driver issue. > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
