Well... okay. This is interesting. Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion kernels in my life (since age 15) and I see nothing missing.
Plain old non-Ben-patched 2.4.20 kernels seem to boot fine on this thing. However, your patched kernel seems to shunt itself immediately into Runlevel 0 or Runlevel 6, since the last thing I see when I boot it up (sorry, the messages scroll by so fast I can't catch them all, and no, they DO NOT end up in /var/log/messages nor /var/log/syslog) is "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." ... which is generated by hwclock.sh / hwclockfirst.sh, two startup scripts (in /etc/init.d) which are only loaded by runlevels 0 and 6... This is not making me happy. :( Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Again, for reference, this machine is a Mac 7200. Oh, and I even tried removing all the PCI cards, effectively returning the Mac to "stock" condition (no IDE, just SCSI; no Tulip NIC, just the built-in MESH)... no go. Same results! Any help? On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:24, Jessica Blank wrote: > > I am having a big problem here. > > > > My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the > > large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect. > > > > This is a KNOWN WORKING drive. I just pulled it out of a working system. > > > > I've tried compiling IDE Disk Support and the Promise controller driver > > (the two necessary modules, of course) as modules, and I've tried > > compiling them straight into the kernel. NEITHER WORKS. > > > > When I insert ide-mod and ide-disk, I get: > > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver > > Revision: 6.31 > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for > > PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev > > 70 > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: chipset revision 1 > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: not 100%% native mode: will > > probe irqs later > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: ROM enabled at 0x80810000 > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED > > Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0x0800-0x0807, BIOS > > settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0x0808-0x080f, BIOS > > settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA > > > > .......however, as you can see, it does not detect the disk itself! > > Actually, I can't see as the disk probing happens later during boot... > > > This is very frustrating. > > > > And yes, I have already checked the connections to the disk. They are > > fine. :) > > Can you send me the complete dmesg log along with the version of the > kernel you are using ? > > Ben. > J e s s i c a L e a h B l a n k
