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

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.

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. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Paul King wrote:
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
The usual telling is: $ cat "food in tin cans" cat: cannot open food in tin cans
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)
Last evening a Raspberry Pi told me: [ 2.230037] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid [ 2.242458] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501 which is an interesting phrasing I hadn't seen from a kernel before. -- Anthony de Boer
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