When I boot from the 2005.0 minimal LiveCD, dated 2005-03-20, it gets no further than putting up the Penguin image and then printing the single line message: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0001:11:02.0 The same systems boots from the LiveCD 2004.3 minimal disk (2004-10-30) without problems. In that environment, an lspci shows that the device is 0001:11:02.0 VGA compatible controller ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) Indeed, this is the only PCI or AGP video card in the machine. An lspci listing can be provided if you like, since I can boot the machine using a gentoo-source kernel I configured manually using the minimal LiveCD 2004.3. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert LiveCD 2005.0 disk into disk drive 2. Boot Mac with "c" key held down (which tells open firmware to boot from cdrom) 3. At kernel selection screen, choose G4 Alternatively, choose G4 nodetect Alternatively, choose G4 nodetect video=radeon:1028x1024 Alternatively, choose G4 video=radeon:1028x1024 Actual Results: The Penguin appear then directly below it, with nothing else on the screen, the one line error message given above. This happened the approx. 6-8 times I tried it with 2 exceptions. In both of the exception situation, I had entered the nodetect option, but oddly, still received the PCI error message above. However, it then went on to at least try to boot up. However, I then got another error message (which I believe to be bogus as well) that my root partition is problematic: "EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended". I have double checked my root ext3 partition using e2fsck and no errors were found. Expected Results: Booted into the PPC Gentoo LiveCD (minimal) 2005.0 environment. Machine: PowerMac G4 400MHz, model: "Digial Audio" The "top" command gives: 255360k memory New disk drive: Seagate 200GB No card in the AGP slot, only a new ATI Radeon 9200 in the first PCI slot. No accelerators, overclocking, scsi, or other paraphenalia. One of your more basic PPC systems. Basically, an old machine the university was throwing away that I wanted to use Gentoo on. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-317356-highlight-.html Problem has also been posted to the forums, with no response so far.
Sorry for the long delay. I tested the 2005.0-CD with a PowerMac 533. The boot up takes quite long and there is a phase (when only the penguin is shown) where the CDs seems to hang for about a minute or two. Well, this machine has an AGP and a PCI-card built in. I can also test without the AGP-card. Furthermore, you should use video=radeonfb: instead of video=radeon:
I took the time to test the same 2005.0 CD 10 times on the same machine. 1 out of 10 times, it made it beyond the error message described before. All the other times (9 of 10), it hangs, just as I stated. I let the machine sit over 30 minutes after the error message hoping it was just an issue with slowness, but nothing happened so slowness is not the issue. The machine is running Gentoo with a 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 kernel, so I think the problem is with the CD, not the machine. I do have one other issue (which I'll submit as a bug now). It is that "emerge" (metadata stage) of all things, hangs this same machine. Nothing else does. By the way, this machine is a G4. /proc/cpuinfo gives: audi root # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7400, altivec supported temperature : 23-25 C (uncalibrated) clock : 400MHz revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209) bogomips : 794.62 total bogomips : 794.62 machine : PowerMac3,3 motherboard : PowerMac3,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 65 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) pmac flags : 00000004 L2 cache : 1024K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld
I forgot to add that I tried video=radeonfb on a few of the 10 trial (just as I had before submitting the bug report). I have NEVER made it beyond the hanging state with that setting. I have only made it beyond it without using it (i.e., no kernel options, just "G4"). However, 10+ trial is not extensive testing.
This is on an IDE CDROM, correct? Have you tried booting with ide=nodma just to be sure that it isn't a buggy MDA implimentation for your chipset?
(In reply to comment #4) > This is on an IDE CDROM, correct? > > Have you tried booting with ide=nodma just to be sure that it isn't a buggy MDA implimentation for your chipset? Yes, IDE CD-ROM. According to dmesg it's a: hdc: CD-ROM CDU311, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 8x CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision 3.20 I tried ide=nodma by itself. (i.e., G4 ide=nodam). I got the same message. I also tried it in cobination with video=radeonfb and even with nodetect. All got the same response. By the way, in the forum thread (mentioned earlier), I see someone else has now posted they get the same error message. I think I already noted that I get this error message with my currently running system (originally installed with the 2004.3 CD. I tried the card in a similar machine with ubuntu's install disk and the same error pops up, but the installer does not hang on it. I also tried the FC3 boot disk and it did not show the message or hang. In short, my current gentoo system does not hang on it. Ubuntu install disk 1 and FC3 do not hang on it (in another machine), and, others are getting the same message. I think it might be time for a serious look into the matter.
A little good news on this problem. I found that if I specify certain kernel options, I can move beyond the hanging point. Specifically, if I use: video=ofonly (it often continues beyond the PCI error) debug (it always continues beyond the PCI error) More info: I have updated by ATI Radeon 9200 (a PCI card) with the newest ROM update from ATI: ATI 4.5.1 Card model: ATY, RV280 ROM: ATY, Bugsy_A FCode version: 1.94 NDRV version: 1.0.1f59 VRAM: 128 MB Other info: The PPC Rawhide boot disk from the Fedora PPC project (June 18, 2005) also hangs with the same message. Both Fedora kernels 2.6.11-1.1381_FC5 and 2.6.12-1.1411_F are effected by exactly the same bug. The Ubuntu 5.04 LiveCD (April 6, 2005), however, does not have this problem and X even works so there must be a solution. I'd still love to have Gentoo working on a PPC machine. Hope the above information helps. If I can provide anything else, let me know.
What kernel was used on the Ubuntu CD that worked? Since you were able to boot with other CDs did you succeed in installing Gentoo or another version of Linux? If so, which kernel version and what settings are you using so you do not have this problem?
Please reopen if it's still a problem with 2005.1.
