Re: Kernel panic during boot (Can't get irq for primary IDE!)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:35:13 +0000 (GMT)

> I see exactly the same, about 30% of the time, when booting an old 486
> on 2.1. It detects IDE 100% reliably on 2.0. The only difference is that
> the IRQ in question this time is 10 (in use by an ne2k card, which of
> course does not get probed for until later).

Ok can I throw an idea out here.

Do the probe, if you get irq 12 for IDE, point irq12 somewhere irrelevant
but allocated, do the probe again, if it succeeds dont use irq12, if it fails
use irq12

Will that catch the ps/2 problem ok - since it seems to be relatively
common.

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