For those that are unable to sleep until this issue is resolved, the 2.4.26 kernel build (with IDE DMA) seemed to clear up this issue. :) Thanks, Josh On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:39:16 -0500 Josh Trutwin <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have this doofy Cobalt Raq4 hand-me-down that I managed to get to > run Debian woody (what a huge pain, but it works). Currently my > kernel is 2.4.20. > > I just bought at 250 GB IDE hard drive as this is my backup "server" > but when booting with the new drive the kernel hangs during the > Partition Check. Investigation on google says that this can be > averted using ide=nodma as a kernel boot parameter. > > Ok, so this Cobalt thing doesn't use lilo/silo/grub whatever, it > uses a special BIOS that ignores the MBR and just loads the kernel > at bootup without the option to pass any boot parameters except > through the Cobalt ROM boot menu (set_params "ide=nodma" - which > does indeed solve the hang), but that setting doesn't stick so it > has to be done EVERY TIME the machine is booted and since it's > headless I'd need to have a serial line connected to this dang thing > all the time. > > So, I was thinking of re-building the kernel, which I've done a few > times, but I do not know is there a way to build the kernel and have > it always load with a set of custom boot parameters? Remember - no > lilo/grub etc. - just loads the kernel. Or I suppose I could > recompile the kernel w/o IDE DMA? I wonder how this thing would > handle 2.6.x? > > Thx, > > Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list