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.
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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