I don't have access to emerge -info right now, here's the dmesg: This is a regression against the 2.4 kernels. I'm reporting it on gentoo's bugzilla because it is a modified kernel (it is a baaad idea to modify kernels, especially on install media!). I am reporting it here because it is the only available kernel on the install medium. Linux version 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 (root@gravity) (gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 SMP Thu Feb 16 15:28:08 UTC 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017fec000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000017fec000 - 0000000017fef000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000017fef000 - 0000000017fff000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000017fff000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 383MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 98284 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 94188 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMI 2.3 present. Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 18000000:e7ff0000) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot initrd=gentoo.igz vga=791 splash=silent,theme:livecd-2006.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo acpi=off Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01342000) Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c041f000 soft=c0417000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes) Detected 800.051 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Wed Dec 21 14:36:03 EST 2005 : initialized Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 381276k/393136k available (2336k kernel code, 11160k reserved, 581k data, 220k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1607.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=8035552) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01 SMP motherboard not detected. Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. Brought up 1 CPUs checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 3907k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1010, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled SCSI subsystem initialized PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI quirk: region e400-e4ff claimed by vt82c586 ACPI PCI quirk: region e800-e80f claimed by vt82c686 SMB Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 0000:00:04.0 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: d000-dfff MEM window: df000000-dfdfffff PREFETCH window: dff00000-e77fffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 Squashfs 2.2 (released 2005/07/03) (C) 2002-2005 Phillip Lougher SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 ) vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xd8880000, using 3072k, total 32768k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=20 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4a0b vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 vesafb: Mode is VGA compatible Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:04.1 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:04.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 hda: ST380013A, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-ROM 32X/AKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: LEXAR ATA FLASH, CFA DISK drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(66) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hdc: max request size: 128KiB hdc: 125952 sectors (64 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=984/4/32 hdc: cache flushes not supported hdc: hdc1 hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 EISA: Detected 0 cards. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) TCP reno registered TCP bic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:04.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:04.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:09.0 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: irq 9, io base 0x0000b400 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:04.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:04.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:09.0 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.3: irq 9, io base 0x0000b000 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005 usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1) ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance input: Logitech USB Trackball as /class/input/input1 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Trackball] on usb-0000:00:04.2-2 libata version 1.20 loaded. device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com hdc: hdc1 ReiserFS: hda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda. SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hda FAT: invalid media value (0xf3) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda. Unable to identify CD-ROM format. UDF-fs: No partition found (1) XFS: bad magic number XFS: SB validate failed ReiserFS: hda1: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda1 VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda1. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda1. SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hda1 FAT: invalid media value (0x80) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda1. Unable to identify CD-ROM format. UDF-fs: No partition found (1) XFS: bad magic number XFS: SB validate failed ReiserFS: hda2: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda2 VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda2. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda2. SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hda2 FAT: invalid media value (0x01) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda2. Unable to identify CD-ROM format. UDF-fs: No partition found (1) XFS: bad magic number XFS: SB validate failed ReiserFS: hda3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda3 VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda3. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda3. SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hda3 FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda3. Unable to identify CD-ROM format. UDF-fs: No VRS found XFS: bad magic number XFS: SB validate failed ReiserFS: hda4: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda4 ext3: No journal on filesystem on hda4 ReiserFS: hdb: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hdb VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hdb. SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hdb FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb. ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A hdc: hdc1 hdc: hdc1 hdc: hdc1 hdc: hdc1 parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected parport_pc: probing current configuration parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP] parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7 de2104x PCI Ethernet driver v0.7 (Mar 17, 2004) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:04.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:04.3 de0: SROM leaf offset 30, default media 10baseT auto de0: media block #0: 10baseT-FD de0: media block #1: BNC de0: media block #2: 10baseT-HD eth0: 21041 at 0xd8bdc000, 00:40:05:30:65:2e, IRQ 9 parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected parport_pc: probing current configuration parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP] parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7 de2104x PCI Ethernet driver v0.7 (Mar 17, 2004) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:04.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:04.3 de0: SROM leaf offset 30, default media 10baseT auto de0: media block #0: 10baseT-FD de0: media block #1: BNC de0: media block #2: 10baseT-HD eth0: 21041 at 0xd8bdc000, 00:40:05:30:65:2e, IRQ 9 eth0: enabling interface eth0: set link 10baseT auto eth0: mode 0x7ffc0040, sia 0x10c4,0xffffef01,0xffffffff,0xffff0008 eth0: set mode 0x7ffc0040, set sia 0xef01,0xffff,0x8 irq 9: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [<c012ee4e>] [<c012ef0d>] [<c012e935>] [<c0104cdb>] ======================= [<c01036da>] [<c011b835>] [<c0104dd0>] ======================= [<c0104ceb>] [<c01036da>] [<c0347593>] [<d8be42e3>] [<d8be45ac>] [<c02ffb79>] [<c0300bcf>] [<c03327ed>] [<c0334332>] [<c02f86dc>] [<c01571a4>] [<c015746f>] [<c01574a8>] [<c0102769>] handlers: [<d8841d86>] [<d8841d86>] Disabling IRQ #9 eth0: disabling interface eth0: enabling interface eth0: set link 10baseT auto eth0: mode 0x7ffc0040, sia 0x10c4,0xffffef01,0xffffffff,0xffff0008 eth0: set mode 0x7ffc0040, set sia 0xef01,0xffff,0x8 hdc: hdc1 hdc: hdc1 eth0: link up, media 10baseT auto fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'default' fbsplash: switched splash state to 'on' on console 0 eth0: disabling interface eth0: timeout expired stopping DMA eth0: enabling interface eth0: set link 10baseT auto eth0: mode 0x7ffc0040, sia 0x10c4,0xffffef01,0xffffffff,0xffff0008 eth0: set mode 0x7ffc0040, set sia 0xef01,0xffff,0x8 eth0: disabling interface eth0: timeout expired stopping DMA eth0: enabling interface eth0: set link 10baseT auto eth0: mode 0x7ffc0040, sia 0x10c4,0xffffef01,0xffffffff,0xffff0008 eth0: set mode 0x7ffc0040, set sia 0xef01,0xffff,0x8 eth0: link up, media 10baseT auto eth0: disabling interface eth0: timeout expired stopping DMA hdc: hdc1 hdc: hdc1
Did you try booting with 'irqpoll' as the dmesg output suggests?
Yes, I did try that, The system will hang immediately after displaying the message: >> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/hdb (which is my CD-ROM drive) The HD light is continuously on, the CD-ROM light is off.
Have you tried another bootable linux CD such as Knoppix? Do older gentoo CDs work?
I can boot the machine with BeOS (5.01, full commercial release). Unfortunately, I've been discarding older linux CDs because they tend to have a very short half-life. I did successfully install SuSE 8.0 on the machine a while back. (a few months) Interestingly, I have had intermittient trouble with the Minix boot disk. I can usally get it to boot to the command prompt but the setup utility fails with a kernel panic during the file-copy operation. (actually, a panic in the FS process because Minix is a microkernel...)
2006.1 is out. Can you try this release?
Well, there's been two releases since this was reported and there hasn't been a response since I last asked for testing. I'm going to assume that this was FIXED, but since we cannot verify that, we're marking this one NEEDINFO.
