Bug 56011 – Live CD stops loading after "Scanning for uhci..."

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Joel B 2004-07-03 19:02:56 UTC]

When I try and run the newest release LiveCD (2004.1) the system stops booting after it says "Scanning for uhci".

Relevant System Info:
Athlon 800 Proc
Asus A7V mobo (bios rev 1004d)
No addon usb cards

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-04 06:32:23 UTC]

Please try my -test series.  You can find them at /experimental/x86/livecd/x86 on your local Gentoo mirror, as they are the pre-releases for 2004.2.

[Comment 2 Eric Bauld 2004-07-04 10:27:17 UTC]

I have the same problem with live cd on the A7V Motherboard but It only appeared after I enabled both IDE channels, when just the primary was enabled I was able to install Gentoo stage one, other then hd(n) numbers being mixed up.

[Comment 3 Joel B 2004-07-04 11:21:04 UTC]

Chris Gianelloni:

I just tried your experimental LiveCD and it booted completely, but when the root prompt came up these errors came up after it:

usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out
usb 2-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110
usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out
usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out
usb 2-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110

I'm not sure if this indicated that it's a hardware problem or not?

Interestingly, an old beta livecd (beta 2.6 kernel or something) boots fine with no errors.


Eric Bauld: I tried putting both my HD and CDROM on the primary channel so there is nothing on the secondary but the problem persists with the 2004.1 LiveCD.

[Comment 4 Eric Bauld 2004-07-04 12:38:59 UTC]

When you put them both on the primary did you disable the seconday channel in the bios ? Go into advanced / chipsettings and then ONLY enable the primary IDE
Mine would not load if the seconday channel was enabled in the bios. But I had 2 cdroms on the primary ide, secondary was unusable(disabled in bios) and the hd(s) were on the ATA100 primary channel

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-20 19:39:00 UTC]

Joel, what if you boot one of my -test CD's with the smp kernel?

Also, have you tried any of the more recent -test series?

[Comment 6 Joel B 2004-07-20 22:48:43 UTC]

I tried your -test LiveCD with the smp kernel and it booted completely, with some seemingly unimportant errors as mentioned in #2.

The only way I got the regular liveCD to work was by disabling the secondary IDE channel as Eric suggested above.

I will try your latest test CD after work today if i get time and report back here.

Thanks,

Joel

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-21 05:30:39 UTC]

Note to self, check CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD and make sure it isn't enabled...

[Comment 8 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-24 08:49:44 UTC]

This is fixed in 2004.2 (next week), so I'm resolving it.