On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Elias Rajczyk wrote: > > On our system linuxBIOS gets up to the point that the kernel uncompresses > and then tries to detect the root file system on hard disk. We pass it > kernel option root=/dev/hda1 and supplemental parameters for disk geometry, > ide bus, i/o and delayed access to the ide controllers for the case they > can't follow the post-expansion activity. The master ide (hda) gets > identified as non-ide device and interestingly the slave ide (hdb) gets > identified as ide-device but stays without response. At this point we think > the pci initialisation before kernel expansion was insufficient - we also > get strange values for the ultra dma, time and slave time registers on the > pci bus (0x1001 for all of them). How far is the linux prompt ?
Can u set up serial console, capture the output from LinuxBIOS and email it to us? It would also be great if u can send us an lspci -xxx and lspci -vv when u have linux up under "normal" BIOS. Bharath > Eli > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald G Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 9:56 PM > To: Elias Rajczyk > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Question about LinuxBios > > > tOn Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Elias Rajczyk wrote: > > > Does linuxbios nowadays support access to ide controllers ? > > For what use? It looks like some support will go in, but only for generic > IDE I hope. > > ron >
