> I just tried installing 2.1.105 on an ASUS P65UP8 + C-P6ND, and it
> doesn't boot. After displaying about a half-screen of information,
> the kernel spews:
>
> PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 01:20
>
> and continues filling the screen with that indefinitely. Any ideas?
YABB (Yet Another Bios Bug)... Just try the following patch and tell me
whether it helps or not.
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "System going down at 1:45 for disk crashing."
--- arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c.mj Mon Jun 8 11:48:55 1998 +++ arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c Mon Jun 8 11:51:13 1998 @@ -859,8 +859,14 @@ break; } } - if (!d) + if (!d) { printk("PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device %02x:%02x\n", bus, devfn); + /* + * We must not continue scanning as several buggy BIOSes + * return garbage after the last device. Grr. + */ + break; + } } if (!idx) { printk("PCI: Device %02x:%02x not found by BIOS\n",
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