Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:34:29PM -0700, Alan wrote:
 > I am trying to get Severn installed on a Sony 505ve laptop.  I have
 > installed a number of other versions on it with no problem.
 > 
 > "linux ide1=0x180" does not work either. (Which used to be the fix for
 > this problem on older installs.)

On my z600 (which is just a European version of the 505)
I had to pass..
ide1=0x180,0x386 pci=off

It then worked just fine..

		Dave
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