2.4 Unable to boot on Cyrix box?

2.4 Unable to boot on Cyrix box?

[Nathan]

Hi.

I have an old recycled box playing firewall for me which stubbornly 
refuses to run 2.4.  2.2.17,18,19,20 and a handful of -pre* patches have 
run just fine.

The system just hangs after 2.4 prints out:
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: Maxtor 90320D2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-ROM CDU76E, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

2.2 continues fine.  But 2.4 appears to hang here forever.  No panic, no 
keyboard control, C-A-D does nothing.

hda: Maxtor 90320D2, 3079MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=782/128/63
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

Relevant system specs:
Cyrix 233MHz processor
64M PC-100 RAM (1 dimm)
SIS5513 IDE chipset
    LSPCI reports: 00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems 
[SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)


I have the kernel built for a 386, PCI and EISA support enabled (and 
their respective PNP) all Y, SIS5513 support included in the kernel... 
 What am I missing, here?

More information available if needed.

Thanks in advance,
--Nathan

Re: 2.4 Unable to boot on Cyrix box?

[Lionel Bouton]

Nathan wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have an old recycled box playing firewall for me which stubbornly 
> refuses to run 2.4.  2.2.17,18,19,20 and a handful of -pre* patches 
> have run just fine.
>
> The system just hangs after 2.4 prints out:
> SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 90320D2, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: CD-ROM CDU76E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 


- Did you try with ide=nodma ?
- I've not yet read the full specs of old SiS IDE chips, but there is a 
bug for ATA66 and 33 chips in the stock kernel. Try copying 
http://gyver.homeip.net/sis5513/sis5513-limited.c over your 
linux/drivers/ide/sis5513.c. It fixes the bug above and will output your 
IDE Config registers and each change it makes. Please send me the 
"SIS5513: " lines if you can (I'm interested in cases of failure and 
success).

>
> Relevant system specs:
> Cyrix 233MHz processor
> 64M PC-100 RAM (1 dimm)
> SIS5513 IDE chipset
>    LSPCI reports: 00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems 
> [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)

Do you have the motherboard model ?

>
>
> I have the kernel built for a 386, PCI and EISA support enabled (and 
> their respective PNP) all Y, SIS5513 support included in the kernel... 
> What am I missing, here?


Perhaps correct init code in sis5513.c for your chip. Send me all info 
requested above and I'll try to sort it out.

>
> More information available if needed.
>
The more you send me, the better.

LB.

Re: 2.4 Unable to boot on Cyrix box?

[robert w hall]

In article <3C41E139.8080603@inet6.fr>, Lionel Bouton 
>
>>
>> More information available if needed.
>>
>The more you send me, the better.
>
>LB.

Slack 2.4.5 kernels came up ok on my desktop IIRC -
 TXPro MOBO with SiS5513 and Cyrix M2-'PR300' (ie really a 233) 

robert w hall

Re: 2.4 Unable to boot on Cyrix box?

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

Try compiling a kernel _without_ SIS5513 IDE support and with use DMA by
default disabled and see wether it stops at the same point.

Regards,
	Zwane Mwaikambo