Hi !
In my previous post I had the problem of lilo only displaying
"LI" than hanging in connection to a flashdisk.
I mentioned the failure beeing the usage of the new IDE driver
onstead of the old one. However, as some of you pointed out,
the solution was that the bios mapped /dev/hdc to device 0x80
for booting. I forwarded this information to lilo and it now
boots happily. At this point many thanks to the people who
responded.
However, I remembered having problems with the new IDE driver
and a Flashdisk, so I investigated this other case a bit further:
Hardware is a JumpTec PC/104 with a 48MB flash disk (label
according to the bios is "SunDisk SDTB-128-(PM)").
I took linux-2.2.18, configured it so that it matches the
available hardware, disabled the "enhanced IDE" driver in
the section "block devices" and selected the "old hard disk driver".
When running this kernel, lilo works fine and boots correctly
after lilo installation.
Now I enabled the "enhanced IDE" driver instead of the "old" one,
without any further bells and whistles. If I run lilo under this
kernel, the following boot displays "L 04 [04 ]" (endless 04).
Since nothing else was changed, I definitively blame it on the
"enhanced IDE driver".
Since I got the "0x51 SeekComplete" message while booting, I
tried inserting this type of flash disk into ide.c, as proposed
in earlier mails in this list. The "0x51 SeekComplete" message
disappeared, but unfortunately lilo still didn't work.
So, I think it is fact that with this flashdisk the "enhanced IDE"
driver is not working properly. Normal file operations when used
as a mounted file system impose no problems whatsoever.
Any similar experiences, ideas, pointers, input?
Thanks in advance,
Walter
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