Booting stops on partition check.
This is the related output from working kernel 2.4.13:
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
PIIX4: chipset revision 2
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus 02 dev 28
HPT370: chipset revision 3
HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: Maxtor 92041U4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdd: CD-540E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xa000-0xa007,0xa402 on irq 11
hda: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=19541/64/32, UDMA(66)
hde: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(44)
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.98a
hdc: No disk in drive
hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [2491/255/63] p1 p3 < p5 p6 p7 >
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0:<3>ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 28, key
=
2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
unable to read partition table
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
With 2.4.17-kernel output stops at the last line with "lun0:" (and the
host0/bus1 line is omitted).
Any suggestions?