Hanging on boot when a HD is plugged at a HPT372 controller

2003-03-18 Thread Rodrigo Gruppelli
Greetings.

I have a Soyo SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard, with a on-board IDE-RAID 
controller, HighPoint HPT372. 

Looks like Linux detects it normally like any other IDE controller, I don't even have 
to use any module:

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
HPT372: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
HPT372: chipset revision 5
HPT372: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT370: using 33MHz PCI clock
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbc00-0xbc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbc08-0xbc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK drive
hdd: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <- HPT 372 
hdf: WDC WD200EB-3HBHF0, ATA DISK drive <- HPT 372
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xa400-0xa407,0xa802 on irq 10
hda: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=9732/255/63, UDMA(133)
hdc: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=77557/16/63, (U)DMA
hdf: 391022336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100)

Everything looks normally. But following:

Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 hda14 
hda15 hda16 hda17 hda18 >
 hdc: [PTBL] [4866/255/63] hdc1 hdc2
 hdf: 

And that's it. Hangs here. Everything hangs. It doesn't even echo the keystrokes. Only 
CTRL+ALT+DEL works at this point.

If I plug the hard disk on the VIA controller, it works. The problem isn't the HD or 
the partition table it contains. I already tried the other hard disks, and the same 
problem occurs. 
If I unplug the harddisk off the controller, the system boots.

It looks strange that this problem is only occuring with a hard disk, and not with 
cd-rom drives. Notice that a cd record is plugged at /dev/hde.

I already had done some search on google and on user archives, but found nothing 
related.

By the way, I don't want to use RAID. I just want to use the HPT372 as an extra IDE 
controller. I don't even want to boot the system from it.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance.
Rodrigo


Configuration is:
- Debian unstable up-to-date running 2.4.20 compiled by myself
- Athlon XP 1800+ / 256 MB DDR
- Soyo SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum - With the latest BIOS update
- Chipset (north bridge) VIA KT-333
- High Point HPT 370/372 IDE-RAID controller (on-board)
- Realtek 8100 Network device (on-board)
- Prolink GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB at the AGP slot
- Sound Blaster Live! at the 5th slot 
- Realtek 8139C at the 6th slot
- USB 1.1 enabled (on-board from VIA KT333)
- USB 2.0 chipset enabled (on-board but apart from VIA KT333)
- PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse
- hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4 80 GB
- hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40 GB
- hdd: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B
- hde: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100
- hdf: Western Digital WDC WD200EB-3HBHF0 20 GB


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Re: hanging on boot; NFS problem in 2.0

1998-04-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Geza Gyorgyi wrote:

> The 2.0 rescue disk (both the February and the March versions) may have 
> an incorrect "mount", neither I nor the local Linux guru could install 
> the base system by NFS.  Furthermore, it can be useful to have the FTP 
> option for installing the base system, like RedHat has. 

The nfs install doesn't work because the mount command as supplied with
the rescue disk doesn't support nfs filesystems. By popular demand, the
real mount utility will be included in the next beta-release of the boot
floppies.

Cheers,


Joost


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Re: hanging on boot; NFS problem in 2.0

1998-04-08 Thread Geza Gyorgyi

%
To Philip Jensen, the Maintainers of the Debian installation software 
%

> During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive, 
> and I respond [Yes] it asks which drive (/dev/hda) which is correct, 
> then wants to boot /dev/hda2, not /dev/hda7 which is where the Linux
> partition is.  I can't seem to change this, or run LILO myself.

LiLo seems to configure itself incorrectly at installation. The problem 
equally occurs with versions 1.3 and 2.0. I surmise from several trials 
that LiLo would not write into the master boot record if "/" is not a 
primary partition but a logical one! 

> 
> Additionally, booting message off floppy is Loading linux...
> then stops.
>

You may type at the boot prompt  linux root=/dev/hda7 . If the system 
comes up, edit /etc/lilo.conf to get

boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda7
label=linux
read-only

then run lilo and reboot.

%%%
To the Maintainers
%%%

The 2.0 rescue disk (both the February and the March versions) may have 
an incorrect "mount", neither I nor the local Linux guru could install 
the base system by NFS.  Furthermore, it can be useful to have the FTP 
option for installing the base system, like RedHat has. 

With appreciation,

Geza Gyorgyi

% Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University  
% Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary   
% e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
% phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 


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hanging on boot

1998-04-08 Thread Philip Jensen

Hi

I have managed to install Debian v1.3 (I think) onto my Thinkpad760E.  But I
have a couple of problems

During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive, and I
respond [Yes] it asks which drive (/dev/hda) which is correct, then wants to
boot /dev/hda2, not /dev/hda7 which is where the Linux partition is.  I can't
seem to change this, or run LILO myself.

Additionally, booting message off floppy is Loading linux...

then stops

Help!

thanks
Philip Jensen


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