First of all, here are my specs: Athalon 2100+, 2 maxtor hds (1 40, 1 30), 1 dvd rom, 1 cdrw, asus a7v8x motherboard, and im running slackware-current.

After 0 success with compiling my own 2.6 kernel i downloaded the slackware 2.6.6 kernel in the testing tree on the current mirrors, i installed the packages, changed lilo around, rebooted, tried to boot the 2.6.6 and go this:

hda: irq faild (0xfcfa)
hdb: irq faild (0xfcfa)
ide0 at 0x1F0-0x1F7, 0x3F6 on IRQ 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on IRQ 15
<a line about max size or something>
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: <4> dma_time_expiry dma status == 0x64
then it does it again for hdb

ideas?

it was in a testing mirror, so you cant expect it to work

it might not have been compiled to be compatible for your system maybe?

maybe they forgot to include some important option form the kernel?

who knows.....

nah, the same thing happends when i compile a 2.6 kernel manually my self

ok heres the deal, I have the same problem except I have an athlon 2400+ w/ an asus A7V333.. hda: lost interrupt while booting the newly compiled 2.6.6. This problem seems to stem from ACPI.. I compiled my kernel with no ACPI support and it boots fine, no hda: lost interrupt. You could compile ACPI in your kernel and then pass acpi=off in lilo I beleive is the command, but I just chose not to compile it.. I dont know what the problem is but from what I have seen it happens with athlon/athlon motherboards. Ideas anyone? That is a workaround for the kernel though.

Lol.
I was going through it, and realized and fixed that problem, and it works. Thanks for taking the time to post that though (it clicked in my head before i went to check on my post).

Yeah, No problem. I wish the ACPI worked though.. Maybe you know the answer to my problem. Whenever I shutdown my computer,
shutdown -h now, it does not automatically turn off? I thought it always had, but with default kernel it didnt turn off the other day, which I thought it always did, because I have been running kernel 2.6.6 for a while now and i manually have to hold the power button to turn my computer off? I was thinking this is because of ACPI, Not sure though? Wondering if you knew?

Ya
Use APM, the acipi replacement. Put: apmd & :in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and run: modprobe apm
If you compiled your kernel with apm, you should be fine.