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 > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/adeos-main -- Philippe. _______________________________________________ Adeos-main mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/adeos-main
