I have an HP Pavilion with FC5 and XP dual-booted. After running fine for 2 months, all of a sudden my Linux side hangs after the message "Probing IDE interface ide0". XP has no problems.

I tried both "noprobe ide0" and "noprobe ide1" as kernel arguments with no luck.

I have tried the rescue disk and looked at several things...

/proc/partitions shows
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major minor #blocks name
-----------------------------------------
7 0 71208 loop0
8 0 312571224 sda
8 1 282275248 sda 1
8 2 9245880 sda 2
8 3 52888 sda 3
8 4 1 sda 4
8 5 105808 sda 5
8 6 20888248 sda 6
253 0 18808832 dm-0
253 1 2031616 dm-1
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> fdisk -l
[HTML]Disk /dev/sda: 320 GB, 320072933376 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 41345 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda1 * 2785 40122 282275248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 40123 41345 9245880 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 1 7 52888+ 6 Fat 16
/dev/sda4 8 2784 20994120 f W95 Extended (LBA)
/dev/sda5 8 21 105808+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 22 2784 20888248 8e Linux LVM[/HTML]

/proc/ide only contains ide1 which is my cd/dvd drive at hdc. I thought there should be a directory for ide0. I was unable to create an ide0 directory by hand.


My machine's BIOS has the following:
[HTML]First Channel Device 0: None
First Channel Device 1: None
Second Channel Device 0: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H6522 0603
Second Channel Device 1: None
Third Channel Device 0: ST3320833AS 3.AHH
Fourth Channel Device 0: None
Fifth Channel Device 0: None
Sixth Channel Device 0: None[/HTML]

Any ideas?

Maybe a kernel opps......... Did you recently have the kernel updated?? If so then try booting to an earlier kernel if possible.