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The boot sequence with the 2.6.26.5-smp kernel hangs while probing ide1 until "enter" is keyed. Booting with the 2.6.26.3-smp kernel starts normally. This is on a Gateway E3600 1.5GHz machine. Relevant section from dmesg
Quote:
@lnxsrv1:~# uname -a
Linux lnxsrv1 2.6.21.5-smp i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
....
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 18
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdd: pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 5T020H2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD800BB-75DKA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 98423941957 ns)
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
hdc: CRD-8483B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39704/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
The value for delta in the clocksource line depends on how long before "enter" is keyed. The comparable section from a 2.6.21.3-smp boot sequence is as follows:
Quote:
Linux lnxsrv1 2.6.21.3-smp i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
....
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 18
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdd: pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 5T020H2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD800BB-75DKA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: CRD-8483B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39704/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
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