The 2.6 kernel seems to be testing the DMA option on bootup so
severely that fsck finds errors and
requests a reboot. This is a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III (500 MHZ).
This is my lspci output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
(rev 06)
0000:00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.
PDC20262(FastTrak66/Ultra66) (rev 01)
0000:00:10.0 Communication controller: 5610 56K FaxModem WinModem
0000:00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8029(AS)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3
(rev 01)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$
On bootup of the 2.6.12 kernel there is a lot of dma testing on the
IDE interface. Responses of 0x41, 0x61 keep
getting reported. I googled for kernel bootup problems and found quite
an assortment including my own post about how
to set up an initrd kernel in lilo. I looked at hdparm
ii hdparm 6.1-2 tune hard disk parameters for high
performan
but the man page doesn't give instructions on how to do a simple read.
I would like to read the setup of the hard drives that the 2.4.18-bf2.4
makes and
set the bootup options for the 2.6.12 kernel to duplicate the setup.
The bootup
under the 2.6.12 kernel has caused fsck to find errors and request a reboot.
I am currently using lilo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$ dpkg -l | grep lilo
ii lilo 22.6.1-6.2 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader
can loa
ii lilo-config 3.3.2-1 KDE Frontend for lilo configuration
ii lilo-doc 22.6.1-6.2 Documentation for LILO (LInux LOader)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/wrk/wonk$
I also have the doc debian policy package. Trying to find the
information is a
bit daunting. I didn't want to experiment with hdparm since I don't
care to mess up
my hard drive beyond recovery. I just want to set the 2.6 kernel boot
optons to make
it boot reliably w/o corrupting the filesystem.
Thank you for your help, pointers, and where to find the correct
documentation!
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(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760.
Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux
Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
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