An old T21 is failing to boot and the relevant message appears to be [ 1.929536] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 36.939317] ide0: Wait for ready failed before probe ! [ 37.502676] ide0: DISABLED, NO IRQ [ 37.506356] ide0: failed to initialize IDE interface The owner of ide-mm-ide-add-struct-ide_io_ports-take-2.patch with the "DISABLED, NO IRQ" message is cc'd. I've attached the config, full boot log and lspci -v for the machine in question. I'll start reverting some of the these patches to see if ide-mm-ide-add-struct-ide_io_ports-take-2.patch is really the culprit. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab