After plugging a RaLink RT61 based Wireless PCI card to my working AMD64 Gentoo installation, OS begins to make SATA disks read-only (in a random manner) and then system crashes. I have tried to re-install AMD64 gentoo, even in the installation part (both in console based and GTK based installers) OS fails to write to the SATA disk (even the partition table). I have tried this with two different SATA disks, same thing occurred in both of the disks. However, when I remove the SATA disk and plug an external USB disk, I can access USB disk without a problem and install AMD64 Gentoo. I have two scenarios about this problem 1) I have filled all of the PCI and PCIe slots of the motherboard. So, somehow computer behaves in an unpredictable way. 2) Or there is a conflict in the AMD64 kernel. A wireless card can make the SATA disks read-only. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have a working AMD64 Gentoo on an internal SATA disk and motherboard with 1 PCI slot left 2.Plug a RaLink RT61 based wireless PCI adapter to the empty slot 3.Boot 4.Wait for sometime (it is random, I guess) Actual Results: Applications start not respond one by one. At the end computer crashes with no dmesg. Expected Results: ? My configuration is a little bit weird. And may be the main source is this: CPU: AMD 4200+x2 RAM: 1GBx2 a SATA disk and an IDE dvd-combo drive Motherboard: MSI K9NGM2 with onboard GeForce 6150 Graphics Adapter @PCIe: MSI NX7900GT FireWire Adapter @PCI Wireless Adapter @PCI
Kernel version? Kernel .config? Something in syslog?
I have resolved the problem. I think the problem was about APIC. I was booting gentoo with command "gentoo noapic". Instead of that I disable the APIC feature of the motherboard from BIOS and boot by simply "gentoo". Now, everything works fine. Currently, I'm installing a fresh gentoo. After that I'll enable APIC and supply you the necessary debug data. By the way, I'm using kernel 2.6.19.
Hmmm, maybe you should try some newer BIOS.
