Bug#322240: Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATALink
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:55, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> 1. Immediately after loading any 2.6.x kernel with the bootloader
> before the kernel prints any messages there is a ten minute delay,
> after which the kernel boots fine.
That is a very long delay. I doubt if I would have the patience to wait
this out...
Does the delay still happen with the current daily builds of the installer
(they have a 2.6.12 kernel)?
> 2. When loading the ide-detect module (2.4.27) or the ide-generic
> module (2.6.8) there is a one minute delay without any progress.
Some delay is expected here though one minute again is a bit long.
> 3. Loading the sd_mod module fails (hangs) if ide-detect (2.4.27) or
> ide-generic (2.6.8) has already been loaded. I solved this by running
> the installation in expert mode and loading sd_mod first, then loading
> ide-detect or ide-generic.
That kind of conflict is always very annoying. It is a kernel issue though
and not really something we can fix in the installer.
> 4. When using the 2.4.27 kernel, the installation hangs at "Starting
> up the partitioner 38% Scanning disks..." I was never able to proceed
> past this point with the 2.4.27 kernel. The 2.6.8 kernel worked
> though.
We'll have to ignore that as 2.4.27 has only basic SATA support anyway and
is probably not going to be around in the next release.
> 5. Rebooting with the 2.6.8 kernel failed. The reboot hung after
> displaying... SCSI device: sda drive cache: write back
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: <3>ata1:
> command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
> p1 p2 p3 p4 <
> Nothing further was displayed after the left angle bracket. After ten
> minutes the screen blanked and I rebooted using crtl-alt-del.
> I solved this problem by using the base-config installer module to
> configure apt and install kernel-image-2.6.11-1-k7 2.6.11-7 from
> testing and rebooting into that.
Those problems are to be expected as 2.6.8 also has only basic SATA
support. The kernel mismatch will hopefully be solved soon, but for that
the 2.6.12 kernel packages need to migrate to testing.
Thanks very much for your elaborate reports.
Cheers,
FJP
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