yaboot lockups (IBM travelstar)

yaboot lockups (IBM travelstar)

[Brad Midgley]

Hi,

I just put a 12gig IBM drive in my bronze powerbook. Now, if I try to
coldboot using yaboot, the kernel locks up just after it prints out that
it discovered the ide controllers. I don't think this was happening with
the old 4gig drive.

I have to use bootx if I'm booting the machine cold. yaboot works for warm
boots.

Using paul's rsync 2.2.15, yaboot 0.6.

Brad
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Re: yaboot lockups (IBM travelstar)

[Claudio Nieder]

Hi,

> I just put a 12gig IBM drive in my bronze powerbook. Now, if I try to
> coldboot using yaboot, the kernel locks up just after it prints out that
> it discovered the ide controllers. I don't think this was happening with

I have a bronze powerbook 400MHz with 6 GB disk. When I started to use
yaboot (0.6) with my 2.2.15pre9 kernel it would hang as soon as it printed
first line that wouldn't fit on the screen, i.e. when it had to scroll the
display. I remember Benjamin writing to this list once, that the bronze
powerbook is the one new world machine, which is not yet fully supported
by yaboot, and cold booting through BootX is a must.

				claudio
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Re: yaboot lockups (IBM travelstar)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, May 30, 2000, Brad Midgley <brad@turbolinux.com> wrote:

>I just put a 12gig IBM drive in my bronze powerbook. Now, if I try to
>coldboot using yaboot, the kernel locks up just after it prints out that
>it discovered the ide controllers. I don't think this was happening with
>the old 4gig drive.
>
>I have to use bootx if I'm booting the machine cold. yaboot works for warm
>boots.
>
>Using paul's rsync 2.2.15, yaboot 0.6.

That's a known problem with the Lombard and has nothing to do with your
disk. Basically, what happens is that on a cold boot, something is
screwed up in the ATI chip initialisation, and that cause the console
accel to hang as soon as it tries to scroll the screen. The problem
doesn't happen on warm boot after MacOS had a chance to load at least once.


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