On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:12:08PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Hi,
I just tried booting an OpenSUSE 11.2 DVD on an i945/ICH7 based system with SeaBIOS. This is a work in progress report.
The system hangs with the following message: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...
after a while it prints "IDE DMA timeout"
This message goes away if I enable CONFIG_ATA_DMA but the sysem still hangs.
That's very odd. The "IDE DMA timeout" looks like a SeaBIOS message, but you can only get that message if CONFIG_ATA_DMA is enabled.
Booting with edd=off gets the system further. It boots up with the following messages:
The EDD code in SeaBIOS is pretty straight forward - it definitely shouldn't be doing disk accesses. Maybe you've got a bad build - have you tried doing a fresh checkout and/or "make clean"?
-Kevin