Re: hda=noprobe fails

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On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:31:41PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote:
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:38:37PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote:
I install etch on an old system, but get boot messages below:

Nov 10 17:44:40 debian kernel: hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffff7f8)
Nov 10 17:44:40 debian kernel: hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffff7f8)
Nov 10 17:44:40 debian kernel: hda: no response (status = 0x0a),
resetting drive

Probing takes too much time. As I use scsi disk, I want to disable
probing, so I read files in kerenl-doc-2.6 package and change a
line in menu.lst to:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sda4 ro
noisapnp hda=noprobe

After grub-install and reboot, "hda=noprobe" does not have any
effect.

The motherboard is a BX Slot 1 board. I have installed Win98 and
sarge. In sarge, which use kernel 2.4, I have successfully disabled
ide probing.

The board's ide interface is OK, because I have used IDE disk and
cdrom before.

It's not a hardware problem. The problem is with kernel 2.6

I just want to disable ide probing during boot.


I wonder if the ide is built into the kernel or is part of the initrd.
If the latter, then kernel command lines won't do anything. You'll need
to change the parameters in the initrd setup and rebuild it.

Not that I know how to do that.

In fact, in /boot/config-2.6.18-5-amd64 I see that most of the IDE lines
are listed as modules and that they are in
/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/ide/

Since the initrd setup tells it to load "most" modules on boot, my guess
is that this is the problem.

Doug.


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