Bug 14950 – 1.4rc2 LiveCD's won't boot with Primary HDD on Maxtor PCI ATA-100 Ctrlr

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description xyon 2003-02-01 23:48:16 UTC]

I have an Athlon XP system with DDR Ram. The 1.4rc1 cd's boot fine to this
system, but for some reason the rc2 cd's do not. I've tried with the athlon xp
and the basic live cd's. The Primary (and only) Hard Drive is on a PCI ATA-100
Controller. It takes quite a while on boot for the Linux kernel to get going,
but when it does get to the IDE detection it slows dramatically, then starts an
occasional "hde: irq lost" error, but soon after the error becomes the only
thing you can see on the screen. I've tried with all the boot options (noapci,
acpi = no, etc.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from 1.4rc2 cd
2. It takes quite a bit longer just to get the cd booting
3. repeated error on IDE detection about mid-way through booting

Actual Results:  
I've tried multiple things all resulting in the same error, although the rc1
cd's are fine.

Expected Results:  
boot to a root# prompt

cannot, system is hung at error

[Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-02-05 21:20:38 UTC]

what kind of motherboard and ide controller?
The latest  experimental livecd has better ide support then rc1/rc2

[Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-02-10 20:34:45 UTC]

need hardware type other then pci ata-100 controller 

[Comment 3 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:22:48 UTC]

db fix

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:27:40 UTC]

db fix