The 1.4_rc2 ISO won't boot on a SGI VW230 workstation for an installation environment. The SGI VW is basically Acer hardware with a VIA chipset powered motherboard. The following is the output from a RH8.0 install (the dmesg and lspci -v output). # dmesg output Linux version 2.4.18-19.8.0 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Thu Dec 12 05:39:29 EST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000004ffe0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000004ffe0000 - 000000004ffe8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000004ffe8000 - 0000000050000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 383MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 327648 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 225280 pages. zone(2): 98272 pages. Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ Initializing CPU#0 Detected 731.465 MHz processor. Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1447.13 BogoMIPS Memory: 1284860k/1310592k available (1314k kernel code, 21120k reserved, 989k data, 172k init, 393088k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults> ramfs: max_pages=161135 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=161135 Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0220, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd allocated 64 pages and 64 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 1024 slots per queue, batch=256 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x5cc0-0x5cc7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0x5cc8-0x5ccf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hdc: CD-ROM 48X/AKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 253k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8 <Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs blk: queue c3a22814, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Vendor: IBM Model: DDYS-T18350N Rev: S96H Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue c3a22e14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) scsi0:A:2:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 (scsi0:A:2): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) SCSI device sda: 35843670 512-byte hdwr sectors (18352 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 05:47:42 Dec 12 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0b.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x5c80, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 2 EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on sd(8,2), internal journal usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 558 input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb1:2.0 Adding Swap: 995988k swap-space (priority -1) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP] parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378 ohci1394: pci_module_init failed ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:00:E2:30:04:AB, IRQ 10. Board assembly 727095-004, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device cipsec0 Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 3.7.2 (Rel) kernel module loaded parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP] parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378 lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4191 Mon Dec 9 11:49:01 PST 2002 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000 Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.5 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5340 (Analog Devices AD1881) via82cxxx: board #1 at 0x5800, IRQ 9 Assertion failed! buffer != NULL,via82cxxx_audio.c,via_dsp_write,line=2308 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ### lspci -v output 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: 80100000-820fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 82200000-900fffff Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at 5cc0 [size=16] Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 5c80 [size=32] Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) Flags: medium devsel Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0018 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 I/O ports at 5800 [size=256] I/O ports at 5c00 [size=4] I/O ports at 5c40 [size=4] Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02) Subsystem: Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI Controller Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 BIST result: 00 I/O ports at 5000 [disabled] [size=256] Memory at 82100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at 82120000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82559 Fast Ethernet LAN on Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 Memory at 90200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at 5400 [size=64] Memory at 90300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Expansion ROM at 90400000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: <available only to root> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10 [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Silicon Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 9001 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 9 Memory at 81000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at 88000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Expansion ROM at 80100000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: <available only to root>
LiveWire will look into this. Thanks for the bug report :)
can you please give me some more info on this? where does it fail, do you get an error message? thanks, seth
Right after the kernel uncompresses into memory. Setting acpi=no doesn't seem to help either.
you tried apic=no ? (not acpi, apic...) supposedly sgi vws support is a little b0rk3d in the kernel...but you might want to see if you can roll your own kernel with CONFIG_VISWS in the kernel...we can't really include this in our default kernel though becuase from what i understand it can break other stuff....let me know
db fix
