Re: Reboot hang FIXED

[kriko]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:53:18 +0200, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Seems a fairly safe assumption that the Linux driver leaves your DVD-ROM  
> in a peculiar state then. If you have both drivers compiled in, I  
> believe the new PATA driver will "win" (judging by the number of people  
> that lost their drives on hda...) so I've added its author to the CC.
>
> Repeating information from your first post:
>
>    Gigabyte gak8nsp (nforce 3)
>
>    NEC DVD-RW@nv_pata
>    1x 80 GB WD@nv_sata, 1x 250 GB WD@nv_sata , IBM (20GB) @ nv_pata
>
> Machine hangs at summary screen where it would be trying a boot from DVD  
> normally on cold boot, or reboot from Windows. reboot=b doesn't help.
>
> Rene.

Sorted out, built 2 kernels, one with old driver, other with only new  
driver. The one with old driver hangs (it could be because  
BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD was enabled?),
using only new drivers works fine.

Thanks for all your help.


--
kriko
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