Am 09.10.2012 22:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Unfortunately I still don't see what to compile in for this unknown > PCI-device: the old kernel seems not to know what to do with PIIX3 > (although exactly the same kernel uses PIIX4 fine on vmware). > > Maybe some different PCI-bus .. ?
after all it seems to boil down to enabling DMA (for the IDE-controller) in the kernel ... *sigh* Let's see what the customer says. thanks @Florian for pointing me back to the idea of compiling a "fresh" kernel ... Stefan