Re: 2.6: Where'd my HD go?

["Andrew D. Myers" <myers@pobox.com>]

I said:
> >Since I hadn't done anything beyond installing, I decided to blast it
clean
> >and install 2.6.  The 2.6 boot disk seems to have trouble recognizing my
> >circa-1994 system's EIDE controller, where 2.5 had no trouble at all.
I've


Peter N. M. Hansteen said:
> I had a similar problem with an early pentium.
>
> Try "boot -c" at the boot: prompt, then "disable pciide".
>
> after your first successful boot, config -e is your friend. See the config
> man page and/or the faq for details.

That was exactly the nudge I needed--worked like a charm.  Thanks!


Denis A. Doroshenko said:
> > pciide0: channel 0 ignored (other hardware responding at addresses)
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> this string should answer all the questions "why". it says, that there's
> another ide controller responding on the historic addresses (0x1f0/16,
> 14 irq, or 0x160(??) irq15).
[snip]
>so, you should find the offending device and switch it off.

That's a quirk of this older motherboard, it seems--in the system BIOS, you
can select either PCI or standard IDE, or both (which strikes me as an
interesting choice).  It defaults to standard only; if I switch it to PCI
IDE, it can't find the HD, and nothing works, so standard seems the way to
go :)

In any event, while the PCI IDE controller is 'disabled', it's not disabled
enough, as it's still getting picked up and hosing things up.  Which leads
me to think that perhaps 'disabled' is a descriptor rather than a toggle ;)

> > WARNING: NVRAM century is 20 but RTC year is 2000
>
> :-) hehe, what this is supposed to say?

Yep, I found that one amusing as well :)  While it's an older machine, the
clock is y2k compliant blah blah blah.

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Andrew D. Myers
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