From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <451C0171.3020508@domain.hid> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:08:01 -0400 From: "J.D. Yamokoski" 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> <451BDADC.30101@domain.hid> <1159454661.4982.20.camel@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <1159454661.4982.20.camel@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: General discussion about Adeos List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: rpm@xenomai.org Cc: adeos-main@gna.org Philippe Gerum wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:23 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> J.D. Yamokoski wrote: >> >>> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> >>>> J.D. Yamokoski wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Greetings, >>>>> >>>>> I have recently run into some trouble trying to boot a custom configed >>>>> linux kernel with Adeos. During boot the system seems to have problems >>>>> 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, and >>>>> both SATA-as-SCSI-driver and the regular PCI IDE driver are enabled.) >>>>> Unpatched this customized kernel works fine. And as expected, if I use 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 out >>>>> at anyone? I have include my config file with this email. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> What I-pipe patch version are you using? >>>> >>>> Could you try with CONFIG_PCI_MSI disabled? There has been other reports >>>> 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 should >>>> switch off CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR, CONFIG_CPU_FREQ, and CONFIG_APM. >>>> Recent Xenomai versions should warn you about this fact as well. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> 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. >> >> >>> By the way, I was using I-pipe patch 2.6.15-i386-1.3-07. >>> >> Philippe, any news on the MSI issue? >> >> > > Nope. Unfortunately, now hw at hand that exhibits the issue, and no time > to dig it anyway. > > >> Jan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Adeos-main mailing list >> Adeos-main@domain.hid >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/adeos-main >> I can't lend out hardware, but if there are specific tests or patches you want me to try, by all means send them my way. J.D.