Bug 9633 – Fujitsu P2000 won't boot without boot parameters

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Brandon Ehle 2002-10-24 21:45:49 UTC]

On the Fujitsu P2000, 1.4rc1 won't boot because you can't specify boot parameters.
1.3 lets you specify params, but a buggy driver causes other problems later. 
1.2 boots correctly on the P2000 though.

To be able to boot on the P2000 you need to either have Alan Cox's patch which
is in RedHat 8, or you need be able to specify the line

linux ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66

[Comment 1 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-10-26 01:35:10 UTC]

This isn't my realm... and the next kernel release will be -ac based... mjc and
I are working hard on it... so perhaps the solution is twofold 1) get livecd to
allow boot params and 2) using -ac kernel... hopefully both for 1.4?

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-22 01:00:53 UTC]

Hi. First, thanks for the bug report. Please give the "2002122100" iso a try 
(download at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd/) and post results 
(good/bad) here. If this RH8 patch is not yet in 2.4.19 (what our current 
livecd kernel is based on,) we'd like to know about it so that we can add it to 
our kernel. Thanks very much.

[Comment 3 tercero12 2002-12-30 14:06:04 UTC]

this bug is directly related to the Ali IDE chipset on the P2000.  Linux's
support for this chipset is a bit buggy in the vanilla build.  I was unaware of
AC's build having fixed it, but there is a patch available (for 2.4.18 kernels,
it patches 2.4.20 with no problems) at:
http://www.geocities.com/robm351/lifebook/alim15x3.patch.txt

Removing Ali chipset support also works, but that might break other platforms.

[Comment 4 Rob McMullen 2003-01-01 08:05:54 UTC]

I tried both the 2002122100 and (for grins) the 2002122300 iso images.  Without
the "ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66" boot parameters, neither worked.  With the boot
parameters, 2002122100 *did* work.  For some reason, 2002122300 didn't work even
with the boot params.

FYI: Michael Leuchtenburg, another P2000 owner, found that 2.4.20-ac2 has the
ALi patch applied, as does 2.5.53 and beyond.

[Comment 5 Brandon Ehle 2003-01-04 21:58:42 UTC]

Gentoo 1.4rc2 doesn't work with or without ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66, so not only is the required patch missing, but its also still using the broken IDE controller driver.

[Comment 6 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-01-12 18:24:18 UTC]

xfs-sources contains new ide core, should take care of this problem

[Comment 7 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-01-12 18:25:16 UTC]

xfs-sources contains new ide core, should take care of this problem

[Comment 8 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-02-05 21:22:24 UTC]

experimental has ali support

[Comment 9 Brandon Ehle 2003-02-24 13:41:52 UTC]

I tried the latest experimental and this is still not working.

[Comment 10 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:20:25 UTC]

db fix

[Comment 11 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:25:19 UTC]

db fix