Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

[Robert Hancock]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted
> > > a couple of times now, here's another:
> > > [    0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
> > > [    0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
> > > what the heck is that trying to tell me to do, in some sort of broken
> > > english?
> > A lot of NVIDIA-chipset motherboards have BIOS problems where they
> > include an incorrect ACPI interrupt override for the timer interrupt,
> > which tends to cause the system to fail to boot due to the timer
> > interrupt not working. The kernel normally ignores ACPI interrupt
> > overrides on the timer interrupt for NVIDIA chipsets for this reason.
> > Unfortunately on some such boards the override is actually correct and
> > needed, and so this actually causes problems. Hence the
> > acpi_use_timer_override option.
> >
> > In any case this is unlikely to have anything to do with your problem,
> > since if that was messed up you likely would never have even booted.
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> In this case, there seems to be a buglet.  I turned on the nvidia/amd drives 
> under the ATA section of the menu, and turned off the pata_amd under the sata 
> menu in xconfig.
>
> But I've tried twice now and it fails to build the initrd because the pata_amd 
> module is on the missing list.  Of course its missing, I didn't have it 
> built...
>
> Next?

Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, a lot of distributions use this to 
generate the initrd. If there's references to pata_amd it'll try and 
include it.
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