Hi Helge,
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?
This is probably a one-off event, as in my prior boot into the installer
the CD was mounted. I found the the install CD and I also had switched
to screen 2 and poked around.
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.
As I think I've already written, it doesn't boot. Same symtom like the
other CDs (exept a very old one, but this version then couldn't access
the disks). That's probably why you think I have problems accessing
disks or CD, but my problem is that the kernel doesn't boot.
This CD stopped either after the "If this is the last message..." or
after "Booting the kernel", I don't remember. I think I saw both
variants with the different CD versions I've tried.
I can try again when I'm at the machine.
And then I can try the earlyprintk test so that we hopefully get an
indicatiion as to what is happening.
regards,
chris
