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From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Subject: Re: pci=off
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:18:56 +0100
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:52:50 -0400
"werner" <w.landgraf@ru.ru> wrote:

> "werner" <w.landgraf@ru.ru>
> In the last time, more and more laptops have problems to 
> boot with Linux.
> 
> The most frequent problem is that IDE drives are not 
> found, or cannot be accessed because reclaimed as ocupied. 
>   The only mean to access them and to get it booted, is 
> with pci=off.   However, with this, the system becomes 
> almost unuseable, lspci also shows nothing.      ITS 
> NECESSARY THAT SOMEONE MAKE A KERNEL PARAMETER  pci=noide 
> , so that all hardware is registered, with exception of 
> ide (and sata) drives   !!!!   This problem, for example, 
> also happens on IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops.

i run on thinkpad r61 . i have experienced no problems.
what specific model are you running into trouble and with what
specific kernel-configuration? 

maybe this helps: http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html 


> 
> A Toshibe Satelite laptop, I need go back to kernel 2.6.23 
> . With later kernels, at the beginning of the boot the 
> screen become black and nothing more happened.  The same 
> happens on that laptop with all newer Slackware kernels

did you try any recent fedora/ubuntu/debian live-dvds? this is normally
the easiest way to check if there is a real problem or if it is only a
kernel-configuration issue. 

cheers,
flo

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