Due to a lack of time i tried just 2.5.5, which worked very well.
I get the oops while initializing the IDE controller, just after
hdc: LTN485, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
and before the expected:
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Luigi Genoni wrote:
> > HI,
> >
> > It is almost impossible to boot 2.5.6 with IDE disk with
> > chipset :
> >
> > 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE (rev 02) (prog-if 80
> > [Master])
> > Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE
> > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
> > I/O ports at 2460 [size=16]
> >
> >
> > I get an oops with every configuration I tried.
> > Of course I have no way to save log this oops,
> > and I had no time to write it down. Anyway it is the usual
> > "attemped to kill init" message.
> >
> > Apart of this there is the old OSS driver with still
> > a virt_to_bus() in dma.c file,
> > and drm/i810.c has the same problem too, also if a trivial
> > (and of course wrong, also if it works temporally) fix
> > is quite fast.
>
> Could you please tell me which was the last version (possible up to
> pre status) which worked? And could you possible tell where the
> system actually hangs during the boot process (what is the
> last init message which appears on the screen?).
>
> During IDE setup? During mounting? During fsck or whatever.
> I'm asking this becouse I couldn't get patch-2.5.6-pre3 working
> on my athlon system and there are as well apparent instabilities
> on my i440MX based notebook, which are not related to the IDE changes.
> (pre2 with patch number 16 and 17 applied works for me of course on
> both of them quite well...)
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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