I was attempting to manually upgrade the kernel from 2.2.16-10mdk to
2.2.17-21mdk.
my promise ultra 66 is used for ide buses 2 and 3. I use the built in
ide for ide buses 0 and 1.
I went on to further discover that it's a systemic problem with RC1 and
the promise 66 card.
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In 2.2.16-10mdk I append this:
ide2=0xc400,0xc800 ide3=0xcc00,0xd000
Which get's displayed like this during boot:
ide2 at 0xc400-0xc407,0xc800 at irq 15
ide3 at 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xd000 at irq 15
but with 2.2.17-21mdk or the rc1 boot floppy when it auto probes it thinks its here:
(c802 instead of c800, and d002 instead of d000)
ide2 at 0xc400-0xc407,0xc802 at irq 15
ide3 at 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xd002 at irq 15
And the boot hangs at the disk geometry section after displaying the
geometry for hda which is on ide0.
but if I hit F1 and type in:
linux ide2=0xc400,0xc800 ide3=0xcc00,0xd000
or
expert ide2=0xc400,0xc800 ide3=0xcc00,0xd000
It displays these settings:
ide2 at 0xc400-0xc407,0xc800 at irq 15
ide3 at 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xd000 at irq 15
And it gets to the partition check before it hangs...
Also the above has been appended to bugzilla bug #525.
