<> ||<>|| = 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