Commit b7107636 authored Jan 30, 2008 by H. Peter Anvin Committed by Ingo Molnar Jan 30, 2008

x86 setup: add note to use edd=off on EDD probing hangs



Tell the user to specify edd=off in the case of EDD probing hangs.
Per LKML discussion.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

parent 70d8abf5

arch/x86/boot/edd.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ void query_edd(void)
		*/

		if (!be_quiet)
		printf("Probing EDD... ");
		printf("Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ");

		for (devno = 0x80; devno < 0x80+EDD_MBR_SIG_MAX; devno++) {
		/*