From: Valery Lashouk (lashouk@mira29.vtsnet.ru)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 17:46:26 CEST
Great thanks again for skilled answer of professional!
You are absolutely right:
The Linux BootPrompt-HowTo
by Paul Gortmaker.
v1.2, May 15, 1999
...
7. Hard Disks
...
"idex=noprobe" : do not attempt to access/use this interface
...
at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
Vlad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karlheinz Koerber" <Karlheinz.Koerber@t-online.de>
To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: MuLinux hangs during kernel boot on old 386SX - please help.
> I hat a problem like this long time ago with an ancient 386SX with only
> 8MB RAM and only one small harddisk. At that time I had some help from
> the mulinux mailing list, thanks especially to Michele and Karl-Heinz.
> They told me how to find solutions to my problem. Now I'm glad that I
> could help you. You can read about such problems in the bootprompt.howto
>
> "In some machines it may be necessary to prevent device drivers from
> checking for devices (auto-probing) in a specific region. This may be
> because of poorly designed hardware that causes the boot to freeze
> (such as some ethercards), hardware that is mistakenly identified,
> hardware whose state is changed by an earlier probe, or merely
> hardware you don't want the kernel to initialize ....."
>
> Greetings from Germany
> Karlheinz
>
> Valery Lashouk schrieb:
> >
> > what should I say ? :-))) It works ! Thank you very much !!!
> > If this is not a secret - how do you know that ?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Vlad
> > vladnova@dds.nl
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karlheinz Koerber" <Karlheinz.Koerber@t-online.de>
> > To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: MuLinux hangs during kernel boot on old 386SX - please
help.
> >
> > > Try at boot : mulinux ide2=noprobe
> > >
> > > maybe this can help solving your problem, maybe not.
> > > good luck
> > > Karlheinz
> > >
> > > Valery Lashouk schrieb:
> > > >
> > > > Trying to install muLinux on DECpc 320p (old notebook 386SX / 8M Ram
> > /HDD
> > > > Conner 80 Mb (the only ;-))
> > > > - it hangs deadly (only reset can help) during kernel boot after
testing
> > hda
> > > > and evaluating it's geometry
> > > > with message:
> > > > "hde - probing STATUS instead ALTSTATUS..."
> > > >
> > > > Sure - I have no even ghost of other hdds except the only hda
(Conner 80
> > > > Mb).
> > > > Did anybody have such/similar problem and how to overcome it ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Vlad
> > > >
> > >
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