I installed Edgy Eft about a week ago and everything went hunky-dory, no issues at all. A few days later I found my cd-rom was causing problems (completely hardware-side) so I removed it from the machine alone with the floppy drive. Since doing that the system has been hanging at boot, specifically after this line:
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Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179577.324000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179577.324000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 2 throttling states)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:07.1, from 255 to 0
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 12) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179578.684000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179579.100000] hda: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179579.772000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
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At this point it spends a minute or so attempting to connect to the aforementioned ide1 before giving up, obviously because the device does not physically exist. Then it continues with the following:
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Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179614.572000] ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179620.024000] hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffbdf8)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179625.248000] hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffbdf8)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179625.248000] hdc: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179630.584000] hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffbdf8)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179630.584000] hdc: no response (status = 0x0a)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179636.088000] hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xffffbdf8)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179641.312000] hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xffffbdf8)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179641.312000] hdd: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179646.648000] hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xffffbdf8)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179646.648000] hdd: no response (status = 0x0a)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179646.728000] hda: max request size: 512KiB
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179646.728000] hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(66)
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179646.728000] hda: cache flushes supported
Nov 1 08:22:54 server kernel: [17179646.728000] hda: hda1 hda2
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In the kernel log it looks like it does one more attempt and then leaves it, finally booting up the system.
I've already edited out references to hdc in fstab and there's nothing about it in grub's menu.lst as far as I can see, but there's apparently another file out there asking for a connection to hdc.
Does anyone know where I can find it or what I can do to get rid of this problem and return to my 10-second boot?