Specs: ECS k7s50 MoBo(sis735 chipset, sis 5513 ide-controller), 256 MB DDR-RAM, Athlon-xp 2000+, IBM 60GXP 40G, Compaq OEM DVD-ROM Drive(Pioneer DVD 115 0127), Aopen CD-RW CWR 2440. CD:s are attached to ide-0 and hd:s to ide-1 because of some winbl0ws problem years ago. Bug 1: The I'm trying to install Gentoo, but the livecd bootup hangs. This is what I get(copied by hand, so there may be some tiny mistake): **************** Uniform Multi-platform E-IDE Driver Revision:6.31 ide: Assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO SIS5513: ide controller on pci bus 00 dev 15 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode, will probe irq:s later SIS735 SIS5513: Default first interface base=0x01f0, second interface base=0x0170 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, Bios setting: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f,bios setting: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPI Model DVD115 0127, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM Drive hda: Aopen CD-RW CRW2440, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM Drive hdc: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA Disk drive hdd: ST380121A, ATA Disk drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 blk: queue c03b376c, I/O limit 4095 MB (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: host protected area => 1 hdc: hdc80418240 sectors(41174MB) w/1916KiB Cache CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100) blk: queue c03b38a8, I/O limit 4095 MB (mask 0xffffffff) hdd: host protected area => 1 hdd: 156301488 sectors(80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: ATAPI 40x DVD-ROM drive 512 kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM Driver revision: 3.12 **************** Hangs there Nothing more happens, keyboard LED:s stop working etc. This happens with or without ide=nodma, tried "noapic" which I found in some thread, it didn't help though. What did help though, was using "hda=ide-scsi", then it would continue nicely(for a little bit) which leads me to believe that the problem lies with the ide/cdrom driver somewhere. It's the first time i've seen this error, running Slack 9 right now, have tried a number of different dists with the same setup, no probs. Bug2: As a workaround to the above, i booted with "hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi", which let me get past the lockup. However, a second later it said "Mounting CD.. ." something, and complained about not being able to find /newroot/dev/cdroms/* - it seems that my scsi disks wasn't picked up by devfs for some reason. I could bypass this by not setting my second cd to ide-scsi, which would then magically turn up in /dev/cdroms/ Then I could simply move the cd to that one when the process stopped. I never dared to proceed past this though, got some bad vibes =) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Can this be tested again with 1.4, or one of the newer experimental versions?
try latest cds
