<<Include(Debugging/Header)>> ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:30%; background:#F1F1ED; background-image: url('https://librarian.launchpad.net/1812570/bugsquad.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 98% 0.5ex; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; padding: 0.5em;"><<TableOfContents>>|| = Introduction = This page describes how to debug issue with IDE harddrives, CDROM and DVD drives. Chances are that if you have newer hardware and are running a newer distribution, you are using the ata_piix module. = Debugging procedure = == Temporary == * On power on, press 'Escape' to get the Grub boot menu * Add the following kernel command line parameters at the end {{{ break=top, modprobe ide_generic all_generic_ide=1 }}} * To do this press ''e'' to edit then go down to kernel and press ''e'' again. When done adding press ''ESC'' to go back and then ''b'' to boot with this option. == Permanent == To make this persistent you can edit the grub config file as root such as gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst = Caveats = ---- CategoryBugSquad CategoryDebugging