Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-37,: RE: Upgraded from 2.2.5 (RH6) to 2.3.18---ATAPI CD-ROM freezes machine while booting

# RE: Upgraded from 2.2.5 (RH6) to 2.3.18---ATAPI CD-ROM freezes machine while booting

Stuart Inglis (stuart@intelligenesis.net)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:42:58 +1200

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> 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?

Nope. Still the same old freeze. :-(

cheers
Stuart

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