[GTALUG] war story: irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

[Paul King]

Nobody cared? Lovely error message! Gotta love the dry sense of humor of the 
UNIX programmers. Reminds me of an old UNIX joke on one of the older systems:

$ cat "door: paws too slippery"
  cat: cannot open door: paws too slippery

Paul

On 30 Jun 2015 at 0:13, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> I moved my CentOS 6.6 system to new hardware (just moved the disk and 
> booted).  Things mostly worked but I'd get told of a kernel oops at 
> roughly each boot.
> 
> Reason:
> irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
> 
> There was not enough diagnostic informtion to report a bug using ABRT (so 
> it told me).
> 
> From googling, I picked up a suggestion to tell the BIOS to set the SATA 
> controller to AHCI mode rather than IDE.  My BIOS only gave me a choice of 
> IDE or RAID.  With trepidation, I set it to RAID and all has been well.  
> Even with only one disk.
> 
> <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1103298>
> 
> The hardware is an old Dell Inspiron 530s desktop.
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