I didn't have another sata disk, but I looked again and noticed that the network didn't work either. Here is the first suspicious snippet of /var/log/messages:
May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: Number of nodes 2 May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 0000000080000000 May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: Node 1 MemBase 0000000080000000 Limit 0000000140000000 May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: Using node hash shift of 31 May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000080000000 May 26 13:36:20 orangutan kernel: Bootmem setup node 1 0000000080000000-0000000140000000 Then part that talks about SATA: May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x2850 ctl 0x28A2 bmdma 0x2830 irq 23 May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x2860 ctl 0x28B2 bmdma 0x2838 irq 23 May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0) May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: scsi0 : sata_nv May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: scsi1 : sata_nv May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x2870 ctl 0x28C2 bmdma 0x2840 irq 22 May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x2880 ctl 0x28D2 bmdma 0x2848 irq 22 May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0) May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: scsi2 : sata_nv May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0) May 26 13:36:27 orangutan kernel: scsi3 : sata_nv And another with the network: May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.49. May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: PCI: Error while updating region 0000:00:0a.0/0 (f5205000 != 00000000) May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0a.0 (0000 -> 0003) May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: 0000:00:0a.0: Invalid Mac address detected: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC. May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: 0000:00:0a.0: open: Could not find a valid PHY. May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: forcedeth: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -12 May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 010f1:2895 bound to 0000:80:0a.0 May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: nvnet: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: ERROR: nvenet_probe, unable to create adapter object May 26 13:36:28 orangutan kernel: nvnet: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -12 Is there somewhere that the ACPI information should be getting passed through, and it's getting clobbered? I'm booting LinuxBIOS -> FILO/Etherboot -> Kernel on an IDE disk. Thanks, Myles -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of yhlu Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895 It seems some old version sata disk has problem. Can you try some new sata disk? YH On 5/25/06, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to just add an IDE drive to boot the first kernel. Until I had > LinuxBIOS booting, I felt like the 512KB that the BIOS Savior gave me was > too little to play with for adding tiny Linux. After I can reliably boot > from the 512KB "backup" I'll think about writing over my original 1 MB :) > > When I boot from LinuxBIOS to the IDE drive it doesn't recognize my SATA > drives, even though sata_nv gets loaded. They get mounted normally when I > boot from the same drive with the factory BIOS. Any ideas or hints? > > Thanks, > Myles > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myles Watson > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:49 AM > To: 'Lu, Yinghai'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895 > > It's starting to seem like a long chain of events from LinuxBIOS to > Etherboot to FILO to kernel on CF to myKernel. I'd also like to be able to > get to grub eventually. Is there a way to go from LinuxBIOS to grub more > directly on the s2895? > > Thanks again for your help. > > Myles > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lu, Yinghai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895 > > You can not boot from CK804 sata directly with FILO in Etherboot. > > The code only support Sata that can work on compatible IDE mode. > > You need to use other media ( network, CF IDE flash) to load kernel with > ck804 sata and kexec support, and use kexec to load final kernel in your > sata disk. > > YH > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myles Watson > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895 > > I am booting linuxbios with etherboot and filo as the payload. I tried > to > follow the s2881 tutorial on the wiki. > > Etherboot only finds my cd-rom. When I try to use hde:/ it tells me that > "Drive 4 does not exist". All drives up to j except hda (my cd-rom) give > the > same error message. Sometimes if I try hdg it hangs. > > I saw README.filo_in_etherboot where it says it only works on SATA port > 1 or > 2. I've tried on SATA 0 port 0 and 1, SATA 1 port 2 and 3. > > I also seem to need to boot the factory BIOS in between each attempt, or > I > won't get very far. > > Is there something simple I've missed? > > Thanks, > Myles > > Output: > > Etherboot 5.4.2 > Drivers: TG3 FILO Images: NBI ELF > Protocols: DHCP TFTP > Relocating text ... > Scanning PCI: found 30 devices > Probing pci disk... > [FILO]FILO version 0.4.1 > boot: hde3:/boot/vmlinuz... initrd=/boot/initrd... > IDE time out > No drive detected on IDE channel 2 > boot: hdc:/ > No drive detected on IDE channel 1 > > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
