Just got my 8.2 beta 4 CDs burnt and fired up my Fujitsu Lifebook P-2040. I get the same result booting the default installer kernel and the alt2 (2.2.19) kernel from the second disk which is a hang like so:
[...etc...] ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later That's it, it hangs dead at this point where it would normally probe the ide devices. The alt1 kernel which uses generic, non-dma PCI_IDE does boot but does not support kernel pcmcia or any filesystem but ext2. :( Kernel options pci=biosirq and ide=nodma do nothing to prevent this lockup. Is there any way we can get this driver (ali15x3.c) out of the installer kernel at least? I'm not aware of anything in the installation process that relies on it (the alt1 kernel doesn't have it, and it works just fine). Generic PCI IDE works, it's just the ali-specific driver that is locking it up. -Isaac
