[ Coming back to this as I'm playing with my ia64 machine a little again... ]
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:00:53AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:32:18AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:11:36AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> >>>> But information about what kernels work with IDE disks would certainly >>>> be welcome. >>> >>> 2.6.32-46 (the kernel in the latest squeeze point release) shows this >>> problem. On a zx2000 here, it happens almost immediately during >>> filesystem creation when running d-i. >> >>Thanks for checking. > >Sure. In the end, installed Lenny, added a squeeze chroot then rebuilt >the squeeze kernel with old-style IDE support instead of >pata_cmd64x. That worked fine as a workaround. At Ben's suggestion, I've tried adding kernel command line options to the normal squeeze kernel (linux-image-2.6.32-5-mckinley 2.6.32-46). "swiotlb=force" makes no noticeable difference, but "libata.dma=0" does allow the system to function normally (with the obvious proviso that without DMA disk access is *very* slow). I'm going to see if they help with the Wheezy kernel at all... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
