[NCLUG] HP ze5300

[William Dan Terry]

Just got an HP ze5300 with the intention of putting KRUD 8 on it. The
KRUD CD boots on it, but as it starts going through the system check it
seems to stop on the Partition Check. It just sits on hda. The screen
shows a successful indentification of hda a few lines earlier:

...
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80
PCI: No IRQ know for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0. Please try using
pci=biosirq.
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2040-0x2047, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
   ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2048-0x204f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
hdc: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-241, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 156301488 Sectors (80026 MB) w/7884KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63,
(U)DMA
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/WR drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda:

I've tried both pci=biosirq and noprobe to no avail.

Any suggestions? Did I jump the gun on hw compatibility?

TIA, William

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