I kept the Linux hang at that point for 2 or 3 hours, so I think it probably would not go anywhere if I don't do something.
thanks for the suggestion, I will search and check what Linux is doing when it hang, I will let you know. thnks Beneo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Stuge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] IDE become readonly, why? > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, Beneo wrote: >> when boot from factory BIOS, cat /proc/cmdline output this: >> ro root=LABEL=/ debug console=ttyS0,115200n8 > > Ok. Looks similar to what you're using in FILO. > > >> I removed ro from the line, it still have the same issue. > > Yes, I would expect this. > > >> I made up the filo linux boot line by look at the grub.conf file >> in this Linux install. > > Ok, good. > > >> I don't know, I'm not a expert on this. but the "ro" maybe means >> mount the randisk image readonly, not the root file system? > > It applies to both initrd and root. > > >> Come back to my question, does LinuxBIOS actually setup IDE >> interface. > > Yes, it does do setup. > > >> I know it enables IDE from Chipset level, but does it actully >> program the IDE interface, for example using port 1F0, 170 and etc. > > LinuxBIOS does not access any IDE devices. FILO does however. > > But I don't think IDE access is the real problem. > > Try looking at the startup scripts and see what they are doing around > the point where they hang. We can only guess why the script is > hanging at this point. > > The relevant script may be in the initrd you are using, or in the > root fs. > > How long did you let the script "hang" before giving up on it? > > Perhaps it's in fact busy working with something that takes too long > because of another problem in LinuxBIOS. If we know what the script > is doing we can make better guesses about why it is hanging. > > You could also try to skip using the initrd, but I don't know/like > Red Hat so I don't know if it is in fact required to boot the system. > > > //Peter > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
