* Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | 2008-02-09 21:28:39 [+0100]: >It could be that due to block layer changes to I/O barrier handling >allocating ATA command structure on the stack is no longer safe. > >Please try booting with "hdx=noflush" kernel parameter or please try >the attached patch which should fix the issue (if my theory is correct). That was quick. hdx=noflush worked well. The patch delayed the disk access as you can see in [1]. After the IPI message the hd led enlightened and was active until "lost interrupt" message. The following boot process was verry slow. Basically everything what required disk access took a while and the hd-led was almost continuous on. I aborted the boot process via magic keys after about 15 minutes. [1] http://download.breakpoint.cc/lnx-2.6.24-post-long-boot.jpg Sebastian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html