From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <451BDADC.30101@domain.hid> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:23:24 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Adeos-main] Problems booting after Adeos patch References: <451AEEED.1050708@domain.hid> <451B0978.5020108@domain.hid> <451BD6FC.9080205@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <451BD6FC.9080205@domain.hid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE41BBCB91344678A71F81948" Sender: jan.kiszka@domain.hid List-Id: General discussion about Adeos List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "J.D. Yamokoski" Cc: adeos-main@gna.org, Philippe Gerum This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE41BBCB91344678A71F81948 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable J.D. Yamokoski wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> J.D. Yamokoski wrote: >> =20 >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I have recently run into some trouble trying to boot a custom confige= d >>> linux kernel with Adeos. During boot the system seems to have problem= s >>> with the SATA hard drives with messages like, >>> >>> ata1: slow completion (cmd ef) >>> ATA: abnormal status 0x0FF >>> ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host-stat 0x24 >>> >>> And then finally towards the end of the boot sequence, I get "ALERT! >>> /dev/sda3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!" >>> >>> I am using a highly modified config customized for this machine >>> (Highlights of the config: It excludes a lot of drivers, SMP build, a= nd >>> both SATA-as-SCSI-driver and the regular PCI IDE driver are enabled.)= >>> Unpatched this customized kernel works fine. And as expected, if I us= e a >>> more general config file (one that came with my distro) the Adeos >>> patched kernel boots normally. Its just the combination of Adeos and >>> customized config that seems to be the problem. Does anything jump ou= t >>> at anyone? I have include my config file with this email. >>> >>> =20 >> >> What I-pipe patch version are you using? >> >> Could you try with CONFIG_PCI_MSI disabled? There has been other repor= ts >> on MSI issues recently, maybe yours belong to the same group. >> >> Thanks, >> Jan >> >> >> PS: Unrelated to the problem but maybe still interesting: If you plan = to >> use Adeos/I-pipe as a real-time enabler (e.g. with Xenomai), you shoul= d >> switch off CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR, CONFIG_CPU_FREQ, and CONFIG_APM. >> Recent Xenomai versions should warn you about this fact as well. >> >> =20 > That seems to have fixed the problem! The new kernel with this disabled= > boots just fine. Thanks! Well, I wouldn't say "fixed", it works around the bug. >=20 > By the way, I was using I-pipe patch 2.6.15-i386-1.3-07. Philippe, any news on the MSI issue? Jan --------------enigE41BBCB91344678A71F81948 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFG9rcniDOoMHTA+kRAqZaAJ42JR1H1eD9cUzd70zOeQgiANIjPACfQe7u Iof6NkEAn5UyJlka5sbqdiA= =Ftvf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE41BBCB91344678A71F81948--