Re: Bug#224494: ICH5 + ide-detect == lockup

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

Herbert Xu wrote:

| In the next release, I will enable local and IO APIC in the 386 flavour.
| This should resolve the ICH5/SATA hang.
| 
| Unfortunately, this may also cause hangs for a minority of older machines.
| Could debian-installer please document the noapic and nolapic options
| should that be necessary.

I believe it also causes random hangs on machines with the nforce2
chipset.  At one point there was a patch floating around that fixed
this, though for all I know it may already be included in the main
kernel or the Debian patches.

Cheers,

Cameron.