Mike Pumford wrote:

> Andrew Coles wrote:
> > The system initially works OK - coloured bars, intro message, detects
> > various things, however it crashes when it arrives at the 'podule bus'
> > stage. At first I thought it was my SCSI drive so I disconnected that,
> > then I physically removed the card from the machine but the problems
> > were still there. Please can you help me - I'm completely stuck.
> >
> Well what podules have you got in your machine besides the SCSI card?
> I think you can tell the kernel not to look at some podule slots but I
> can't remember the syntax. If nobody else suplies them I'll look at the
> source and find them this evening.
>
> Mike

The ICS IDE interface podule causes this in recent kernels - the bootloader
option syntax to disable a podule slot is:

     'podule#.disable'

Substitute the appropriate no. for # - counting starts at 0 for the bottom slot.

regards,
Dave

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