Hi! Trying to install Gentoo 1.4rc2 on laptop Fujitsu P2110 on Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 866MHz with ALi1533 chipset (I use i686 LiveCD). There are known bug in 2.4.18+ kernels: hanging during boot (while detecting HDD, i think). The last boot messages are: ... ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus dev 78 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later After this laptop hangs. In Slackware 8.1 (2.4.18) I bypass this by kernel boot key "pci=conf2", but in Gentoo this doesn't work. All other keys (noscsi, etc.) also doesn't help. There are small patch for 2.4.18 kernel (by someone): *** linux/drivers/ide/alim15x3.c.orig Tue Jan 29 20:22:49 2002 --- linux/drivers/ide/alim15x3.c Tue Jan 29 20:23:50 2002 *************** *** 573,589 **** /* * set south-bridge's enable bit, m1533, 0x79 */ ! pci_read_config_byte(isa_dev, 0x79, &tmpbyte); if (m5229_revision == 0xC2) { /* * 1543C-B0 (m1533, 0x79, bit 2) */ ! pci_write_config_byte(isa_dev, 0x79, tmpbyte | 0x04); } else if (m5229_revision >= 0xC3) { /* * 1553/1535 (m1533, 0x79, bit 1) */ ! pci_write_config_byte(isa_dev, 0x79, tmpbyte | 0x02); } /* * Ultra66 cable detection (from Host View) --- 573,589 ---- /* * set south-bridge's enable bit, m1533, 0x79 */ ! // pci_read_config_byte(isa_dev, 0x79, &tmpbyte); if (m5229_revision == 0xC2) { /* * 1543C-B0 (m1533, 0x79, bit 2) */ ! // pci_write_config_byte(isa_dev, 0x79, tmpbyte | 0x04); } else if (m5229_revision >= 0xC3) { /* * 1553/1535 (m1533, 0x79, bit 1) */ ! // pci_write_config_byte(isa_dev, 0x79, tmpbyte | 0x02); } /* * Ultra66 cable detection (from Host View) But I haven't any Linux machine to recompile Gentoo kernel :(
same here sony vaio C1MHP hangs at the same will try more recent livecds
Most recent i686 livecd (1.4-rc2) is still affected by this. My Fujitsu P-2120 has the same Ali chipset mentioned below. I can confirm that the patch previously mentioned works to fix the problem with normal kernels. I have not tried to rebuild a bootcd, but this patch works successfully on Gentoo-sources, ck-sources and vanilla-sources (in their recent ebuild versions). In some places, it is mentioned that adding the kernel parameters: ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 will fix the problem (on a per-boot basis). This works for other kernels (such as Knoppix's), but the kernel on the livecd seems immune to such remedies. This patch is widely used among the Fujitsu P-series community (www.leog.net). It has been tested to be stable and non-intrusive on other items/features.
have either of you tried booting with pci=biosirq or pci=bios set? (I just browsed the LKML archives about this) Thanks.
Yes. Neither "pci=biosirq" nor "pci=bios" works. I've managed to replace kernel on LiveCD with "vanilla" 2.4.20 compiled for Crusoe, and it boots with "ide0=ata66" and "ide1=ata66". After recompiling with mentioned patch kernel boots without any additional parms.
in the gentoo-dev list, drobbins requested that bugs having to do with the livecd be filed under the heading "LiveCD (all flavors)"-- would this (important) bug be better off under that category? I'd _really_ like to see this fixed for the final release of 1.4.
The lastest livecd should fix this chipset, it will be uploaded tonight to www.gentoo.org/~livewire , please test if you can.
i downloaded http://cvs.gentoo.org/~livewire/livecd-experimental-3-2-2003.iso doesn't work (without any parameters) on my sony vaio c1mhp last output PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0 Please try using pci=biosirq. ALI15X3: chipset revision 196 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
sorry, i ran into livecd compile problems lastnight, the cd was never uploaded :( hopefully tonight.
that's what i thought and why i've added the url (name) ;)
works now fine
