On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 07:40:17AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 07:05:09AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:13:04AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:56:32PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > > > I need to have both 1.5.1 and -current on one of my machines.  I'd like
> > > > to do it by running -current inside VMware.
> > > > 
> > > > Unfortunately, I can't get the -current install disks to get through
> > > > autoconfiguration.  With IDE "disks", I get to the probe of pciide0,
> > > > and then I get a hard hang (the only thing that seems odd up to that
> > > 
> > > Did you wait long enouth ? The timeout for IDE probe is 31s, and if the
> > > timer isn't calibrated properly this can take much more time.
> > 
> > I waited about 15 minutes.
> > 
> > I'll try building a kernel without wdc at isa and see where that gets me.
> 
> Nowhere.  The INSTALL kernel without wdc in it hung right after the
> "primary channel wired to compatibility mode" line, just like before. :-(

Can you try a kernel without wdc at isa and without pciide ?
Just to make sure the issue is the IDE probe routine

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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