CD problems booting FC7 RC3

CD problems booting FC7 RC3

[Stephen Clark]

Hi,

When trying to boot FC7 RC3 on my HP N5430 laptop I get the following:

...
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 845k
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.20 loaded.
ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:0f.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000 
irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008 
irq 15
scsi0 : pata_ali
PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
TCP bic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
powernow: SGTC: 10000
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
powernow: SGTC: 10000
powernow: Minimum speed 300 MHz. Maximum speed 850 MHz.
powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 670 not supported
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
  Magic number: 3:342:541
Freeing unused kernel memory: 248k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 845k
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.20 loaded.
ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:0f.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000 
irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008 
irq 15
scsi0 : pata_ali
PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi1 : pata_ali
PM: Adding info for No Bus:host1
ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:0
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      HITACHI_DK23CA-2 00H1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
PM: Adding info for scsi:0:0:0:0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:target1:0:0
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
         res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata2: soft resetting port
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x00010177
ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x2)
ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
ata2: soft resetting port
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x00010177
ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x2)
ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO3
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
ata2: soft resetting port
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x00010177
ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x2)
ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
ata2.00: disabled
ata2: EH complete
PM: Removing info for No Bus:target1:0:0
SCSI device sda: 39070080 512-byte hdwr sectors (20004 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
support DPO
 or FUA
SCSI device sda: 39070080 512-byte hdwr sectors (20004 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
support DPO
 or FUA
 sda: sda1 sda2
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda

--------------------------------------
WARNING: Cannot find root file system!
--------------------------------------

Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue
the boot sequence.

bash: no job control in this shell
bash-3.2#
(END)

-- 

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, 
deserve neither liberty nor safety."  (Ben Franklin)

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty 
decreases."  (Thomas Jefferson)

Re: CD problems booting FC7 RC3

[Albert Lee]

Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When trying to boot FC7 RC3 on my HP N5430 laptop I get the following:
> 
> ...
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 845k
> input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> libata version 2.20 loaded.
> ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:0f.0
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
> ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000
> irq 14
> ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008
> irq 15
> scsi0 : pata_ali
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
> ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100
> ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
> TCP bic registered
> Initializing XFRM netlink socket
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
> powernow: SGTC: 10000
> Initializing XFRM netlink socket
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
> powernow: SGTC: 10000
> powernow: Minimum speed 300 MHz. Maximum speed 850 MHz.
> powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 670 not supported
> Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
>  Magic number: 3:342:541
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 248k freed
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 845k
> input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> libata version 2.20 loaded.
> ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:0f.0
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
> ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000
> irq 14
> ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008
> irq 15
> scsi0 : pata_ali
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
> ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100
> ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
> scsi1 : pata_ali
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:host1
> ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:0
> scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      HITACHI_DK23CA-2 00H1 PQ: 0
> ANSI: 5
> PM: Adding info for scsi:0:0:0:0
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:target1:0:0
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
>         res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

Looks similar to the AOpen timeout problem
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8244)

Please try the following patch
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=117548454130046&q=raw)

Thanks,

Albert

Re: CD problems booting FC7 RC3

[Stephen Clark]

Albert Lee wrote:

>Stephen Clark wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>When trying to boot FC7 RC3 on my HP N5430 laptop I get the following:
>>
>>...
>>Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 845k
>>input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
>>SCSI subsystem initialized
>>libata version 2.20 loaded.
>>ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:0f.0
>>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
>>ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000
>>irq 14
>>ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008
>>irq 15
>>scsi0 : pata_ali
>>PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
>>ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100
>>ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
>>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
>>TCP bic registered
>>Initializing XFRM netlink socket
>>NET: Registered protocol family 1
>>NET: Registered protocol family 17
>>powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
>>powernow: SGTC: 10000
>>Initializing XFRM netlink socket
>>NET: Registered protocol family 1
>>NET: Registered protocol family 17
>>powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
>>powernow: SGTC: 10000
>>powernow: Minimum speed 300 MHz. Maximum speed 850 MHz.
>>powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 670 not supported
>>Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
>> Magic number: 3:342:541
>>Freeing unused kernel memory: 248k freed
>>Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 845k
>>input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
>>SCSI subsystem initialized
>>libata version 2.20 loaded.
>>ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:0f.0
>>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
>>ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000
>>irq 14
>>ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008
>>irq 15
>>scsi0 : pata_ali
>>PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
>>ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100
>>ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
>>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
>>scsi1 : pata_ali
>>PM: Adding info for No Bus:host1
>>ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
>>ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
>>PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:0
>>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      HITACHI_DK23CA-2 00H1 PQ: 0
>>ANSI: 5
>>PM: Adding info for scsi:0:0:0:0
>>PM: Adding info for No Bus:target1:0:0
>>ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>>ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
>>        res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>>    
>>
>
>Looks similar to the AOpen timeout problem
>(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8244)
>
>Please try the following patch
>(http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=117548454130046&q=raw)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Albert
>
>
>  
>
Hi Albert,

Do you know if this patch has been put into the mainline kernel? I got 
this problem when trying
to boot the Fedora Core 7 RC3 livecd - so I really can't make a new 
kernel and test it. Also it takes
over an hour to build the kernel on my laptop, that is why I just use 
distributed kernels on it.

Steve

-- 

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, 
deserve neither liberty nor safety."  (Ben Franklin)

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty 
decreases."  (Thomas Jefferson)

Re: CD problems booting FC7 RC3

[Vlad Codrea]

Hi Steve,

 > Do you know if this patch has been put into the mainline kernel?

Yes, it's in the mainline 2.6.21-rc6 kernel.

 > I got
 > this problem when trying to boot the Fedora Core 7 RC3 livecd - so I
 > really can't make a new kernel and test it.

If your HP N5430 laptop has a floppy drive, I suggest you install a 
minimal Linux distro through that. While tracking down a CD drive error, 
I found that Debian works well for compiling kernels and testing 
patches. Here are the steps:

Download boot.img, root.img, net-drivers-1.img, and net-drivers-2.img 
from 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy 
. Write each image to a different floppy using the command "dd 
if=XXX.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync". Boot from the boot 
floppy and follow the installation directions.

Once the system is up, install the following apps:
# apt-get install wget automake bzip2 gzip gcc kernel-package patch tar

Download and unpack the latest kernel:
# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
# tar -xvf linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
# cd linux-2.6.20
# wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.21-rc6.bz2
# bunzip2 patch-2.6.21-rc6.bz2
# patch -p0 < patch-2.6.21-rc6

Download a .config file that specifies libata drivers:
# wget http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=117391341014871&q=p4
# mv index.html\?l\=linux-ide .config

Compile and install the kernel:
# make-kpkg  kernel_image --initrd &
# dpkg --install ../linux-image-2.6.21-rc6_2.6.21-rc6-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Reboot.

 > Also it takes
 > over an hour to build the kernel on my laptop

The initial compilation does take awhile, but subsequent compilations 
(ie. after applying a patch) should only take a couple of minutes.

Vlad