Description of problem:

I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 with BIOS A06. RHL8/9 and severn beta 1 was fine, I
now have a problem with beta 2 and 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl.

On the first boot after installing from CDROM, the boot locked up with two error
messages about my /dev/hdc (CDROM/DVD drive). 

I poweroff the laptop and removed the CDROM/DVD drive. It now boots ok.

With my CDROM/DVD drive out, here is my dmesg output:

Linux version 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version
3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Mon Sep 22 14:39:36 EDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffe2800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003ffe2800 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 262114
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 32738 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                      ) @ 0x000fde50
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d3050f ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fde64
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d3050f ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fde90
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 nogui
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1894.422 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3774.87 BogoMIPS
Memory: 1032312k/1048456k available (1509k kernel code, 15756k reserved, 1114k
data, 136k init, 130952k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.90GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030916
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbfee, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 08 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/248c] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:00.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Asus Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.24a
  Couldn't get the DSDT table header
  Error registering Asus Laptop ACPI Extras Driver
        -0420: *** Error: Could not allocate an object descriptor
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:03.0
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:00.0
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: IC25N040ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c040f3a0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 151k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,6): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 353047
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 353046
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 353045
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,6): 3 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 14:48:11 Sep 22 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf80, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
Adding Swap: 971892k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran>
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
 00:08:74:46:26:9d, IRQ 11
  product code 0000 rev 00.6 date 05-31-02
  Internal config register is 1840000, transceivers 0xa.
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
02:00.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
 00:08:74:46:26:9d, IRQ 11
  product code 0000 rev 00.6 date 05-31-02
  Internal config register is 1840000, transceivers 0xa.
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
02:00.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.6
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
ti113x: Routing card interrupts to PCI
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes.id.au> and others)
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048
eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:6C:97:4E
eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
application bug: hcid(1796) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
(see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated.
BlueZ Core ver 2.3 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk>
BlueZ L2CAP ver 2.3 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk>
BlueZ RFCOMM ver 1.0
Copyright (C) 2002 Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk>
Copyright (C) 2002 Marcel Holtmann <marcel>
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
[drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xe8000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 14:47:59 Sep 22 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:03.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0xdc80 and 0xd800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY91 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0