"Nobody Cared" about my disks..?!
 

Hi Guys,

THEN: Had two harddrives(sata), WinXP on one, Fedora 6 on the other. GRUB is installed on MBR on disk 1. Due to something(I don't remember what), to recognise both my disks, I passed parameters namely 'pci=nommconf' & 'all-generic-ide' to the kernel in GRUB. Everything was fine.

NOW: I bought a 320GB(sata) hardrive, connected it, created some experimental partitons using Windows as well as Fedora, and here is where the problems lies. I am unable to boot into Fedora on the GRUB prompt. It says something like
So I passed 'irqpoll' parameter to the kernel. It still says "nobody cared" but boots nonetheless. And when I get the desktop, it keeps hanging every few minutes(seconds too maybe). Everything is a drag on the desktop.

So what can I do now? Haven't tried Fedora 7 yet, but want to. Hopefully I don't have to pass anything to the kernel there (or do I? :scratch:)

Some help
Thanks

PS: Machine in sig.

PS_Extra: Saikee, if you can read this, please respond man.

Sounds like you have a good old-fashioned irq conflict.

You can try passing the 'irqfixup' parameter to the kernel.

Thanks for that but that didn't work.

After a little trial and error, I've noticed that removing 'all-generic-ide' from the kernel totally boots as normal but an even stranger 'anamoly' (if you will) happens, after a few minutes of usage, the mouse pointer keeps spawning all over the desktop with menus popping up everywhere as if clicked!! If beryl is ON, then it just keeps rotating endlessly lol.

I'm hoping this is not new, someone might come up with something, I'm waiting :)

Ok the error is #IRQ 19.

And I keep getting these errors continously once I boot with "irqpoll"

Figures out its one of those stupid kernel bugs/limitations, couldn't solve the problem no matter what.

No worries now, installed Fedora 7 and all works likes a charm and superfast. :)