On 1/4/26 02:53, Helge Deller wrote:
Hi Christian,
thanks for the boot log!
Overall, your machine looks pretty "normal". Nothing special.
But regarding DVD drive:
On 1/3/26 23:31, Christian Groessler wrote:
You mentioned that the standard kernel failed to detect your CDROM drive.
In most (somewhat newer) HP machines the CDROM drive was ATA connected
to on-board controllers.
I looks like ATA, I have to type "boot IDE" in order to boot the CD.
Yes, you have a HL DVD ROM drive on ATA (built-in ns87415 ATA chip).
Here is the relevant output.
This looks normal:
[ 22.072309] scsi host2: pata_ns87415
[ 22.115650] sd 1:0:6:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[ 22.181110] sd 1:0:5:0: [sda] 71132960 512-byte logical blocks: (36.4
GB/33.9 GiB)
[ 22.272074] scsi host3: pata_ns87415
[ 22.315107] sd 1:0:6:0: [sdb] 143374738 512-byte logical blocks: (73.4
GB/68.4 GiB)
[ 22.407216] ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0xf00 ctl 0xe00 bmdma 0xa00 irq 7
lpm-pol 0
[ 22.496865] ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0xd00 ctl 0xb00 bmdma 0xa08 irq 7
lpm-pol 0
[ 24.780519] ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B, 0018, max UDMA/44
But here it somehow failed.
[ 32.276889] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xa0)
[ 32.343639] ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x5)
[ 37.781616] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xa0)
[ 37.848335] ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x4)
[ 37.914066] ata1.00: limiting speed to MWDMA2:PIO3
[ 43.339662] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xa0)
[ 43.406394] ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x4)
[ 43.472114] ata1.00: disable device
So, the DVD drive is being disabled by the kernel after some time.
I'm not 100% sure if that is the problem. The messages could also have
been caused by other things. Nevertheless, "disabling device" seems strange.
Is this the official drive which came with the machine?
According to [1] it seems to have sometimes issues with CD-ROMs:
[1 - german:]
https://www.windowsforum.de/thema/firmwareupdate-bei-lg-gdr-8162b.65076/
Maybe it's worth to test with another CD/DVD drive?
The other aspect:
Even if the drive is failing with "your kernel", could you please
try to boot the CD I mentioned and post the serial console output as well: ?
http://backup.parisc-linux.org/debian-cd/debian-12/debian-2025-01-hppa-CD.iso
I would like to know where boot is failing, and if we get at least some output
on the console.
By the way....since I see you have 2 SCSI drives installed.
One possibility is also to just "dd" the Debian Installer CD image directly to
one SCSI harddisc
and boot from it. The parisc machines don't care if it's a physical CDROM or a
SCSI (harddisc)
with an ISO image (you just have to mount it afterwards manually as /cdrom
during the debian
install steps).
Helge
