Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:55:03 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
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To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
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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?

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