On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:14, Jessica Blank wrote: > Well... okay. This is interesting. > > Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing > something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion > kernels in my life (since age 15) and I see nothing missing. > > Plain old non-Ben-patched 2.4.20 kernels seem to boot fine on this thing. > However, your patched kernel seems to shunt itself immediately into > Runlevel 0 or Runlevel 6, since the last thing I see when I boot it up > (sorry, the messages scroll by so fast I can't catch them all, and no, > they DO NOT end up in /var/log/messages nor /var/log/syslog) is > "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." > ... which is generated by hwclock.sh / hwclockfirst.sh, two startup > scripts (in /etc/init.d) which are only loaded by runlevels 0 and 6...
Make sure you have CONFIG_PPC_RTC and _not_ CONFIG_RTC and let me know. If the kernel tries to access the legacy RTC chip on the ISA bus, it will hang. > This is not making me happy. :( > > Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? > > Again, for reference, this machine is a Mac 7200. > > Oh, and I even tried removing all the PCI cards, effectively returning the > Mac to "stock" condition (no IDE, just SCSI; no Tulip NIC, just the > built-in MESH)... no go. Same results! > > Any help? > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:24, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > I am having a big problem here. > > > > > > My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the > > > large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect. > > > > > > This is a KNOWN WORKING drive. I just pulled it out of a working system. > > > > > > I've tried compiling IDE Disk Support and the Promise controller driver > > > (the two necessary modules, of course) as modules, and I've tried > > > compiling them straight into the kernel. NEITHER WORKS. > > > > > > When I insert ide-mod and ide-disk, I get: > > > > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver > > > Revision: 6.31 > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for > > > PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev > > > 70 > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: chipset revision 1 > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: not 100%% native mode: will > > > probe irqs later > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: ROM enabled at 0x80810000 > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED > > > Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0x0800-0x0807, BIOS > > > settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA > > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0x0808-0x080f, BIOS > > > settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA > > > > > > .......however, as you can see, it does not detect the disk itself! > > > > Actually, I can't see as the disk probing happens later during boot... > > > > > This is very frustrating. > > > > > > And yes, I have already checked the connections to the disk. They are > > > fine. :) > > > > Can you send me the complete dmesg log along with the version of the > > kernel you are using ? > > > > Ben. > > > > J e s s i c a L e a h B l a n k -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
