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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2008-01-30 13:33:03 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:33:03 +0100
commitb710763608f1bfc8d4cd346e508f3f4878af361e (patch)
treebd1bb03361f9eb56c09f8e409f6e49ebee290278
parent70d8abf5df857ca7befe02e5d61fde807420a54c (diff)
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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>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/edd.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/edd.c b/arch/x86/boot/edd.c
index d3e978030c5c..8721dc46a0b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/edd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/edd.c
@@ -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++) {
/*
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