> I've tried quite a few of the 2.4.19-pre patches, with or without
> various -ac patches, including pre10 + ac2, and they all basically
> display one of two behaviors: The machine either hangs just before
> detecting the disk, or when doing the partition check for the disk.
[...]
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
> ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
After poking around a bit, it seems like the real problem might be
with the ALI15X3 driver. I disabled that driver, and now I can boot
using 2.4.19-pre10-ac2. Of course, that leaves me with no DMA...
So -- is this a general problem with this driver, or does it only
show up when using disks bigger than 128GiB?
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