Re: hda=noprobe fails
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" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> 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.
>
>
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