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From: Alan Cox <alan@...>
To: <linux-kernel@...>, <hpa@...>
Subject: EDD hangs
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 2:24 pm

On a box here the kernel hangs on boot without "edd=off". Adding printfs

as hpa suggested shows that it correctly scans BIOS disk 1 (0x80) then on

disk 2 (PDC20263) it gets a version then hangs trying to read the MBR


Alan

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From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: EDD hangs
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 2:40 pm

Is there a disk connected to the PDC20263 and its BIOS enabled?


	-hpa

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