Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:40:58PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:52:41AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
.3 finds the drives, rc1 does not. That's about as far as I can go until
someone else has something to try.
Did you try 'pci=nomsi'? Does it make any difference?
With this system, at f8test<n>, it was the only way to boot. I've never
removed it.
Ah, in that case did you try to remove it with newer kernels?
Most likely this will not change anything here but just for a check.
When I looked, the solution to my problem with 'pci=nomsi' etc was to
build the kernel without the support it turns off. Therefore, omitting
pci= will do either do nothing, or enable support for MSI and MMCONF
that I don't need.
When I hand-built my test kernels, I chose as best I could what I might
actually need should it run and omitted anything that I did not think
likely to work. I have checked, they are not configured.
Besides, _that_ problem occurs very early, when it's looking at ACPI and
way before it examines my IDE/ATA hardware.
THe problem is that, while it can reliably find my SATA DVD burner, it
can also reliably not find my two SATA disks. _I_ wonder about the
"scsi" stuff. Here's the difference:
Linux version 2.6.25.rc1js (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.0
20080307 (Red Hat 4.3.0-2) (GCC) ) #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 17 09:43:03
WST 2008
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Linux agpgart interface v0.103
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-212 1.21 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Linux version 2.6.24.3js (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.0
20080307 (Red Hat 4.3.0-2) (GCC) ) #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 17 08:02:06
WST 2008
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3320620AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0 12.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-212 1.21 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
09:56 [summer@numbat ~]$
Whether MSI is implemented in my hardware or not, it does work without
it - otherwise one couldn't install Windows, and the Linux kernels that
do run would not.
On the basis that they don't work and that /boot was stuffed full of
junk, I've removed most of the kernels and cleaned up menu.lst so well I
had some difficulty booting:-)
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John
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