Re: pci=off

[Alan Cox]

> The most frequent problem is that IDE drives are not 
> found, or cannot be accessed because reclaimed as ocupied. 

Some detailed diagnostic information would be useful.

> screen become black and nothing more happened.  The same 
> happens on that laptop with all newer Slackware kernels

First reporting point for distro kernels is the distribution. Do modern
non-Slackware kernels (eg Fedora, SuSE) work on the problem laptop ?
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