I had to take down my local linux server down for some maintenance, and on reboot, I a Partition Check hang on bootup that I know I’ve encountered before (with my HPT366/HPT370 RAID controller built on the motherboard). I had this problem earlier, and I forgot how I solved it, but going and doing some googling™, I think I found out again. I actually had to do a change in the hpt366.c driver in the kernel source – now that I think about it, I did a recent emerge that would have probably updated that code (new kernel w/ bad line of code would give me the same problem)…
The workaround is to comment the config_chipset_for_pio(drive) line in the config_chipset_for_dma() function [hpt366.c:868].
- Google Groups: HPT366 hangs up at boot – interesting thing here is that is the mlist.* hierarchy. That’s a good idea. (well, except for the email address harvesting)
- Linux-Kerneal Archive: 2.4.19 IDE Partition Check issue
Oh, apparently, something I posted today is crashing Chimera, sorry about that.