Bug#276351: installation-reports: [i386] [pre-rc2] [netinst] dma problem on first reboot
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2, downloaded from d-i website 8.10.04
uname -a: Linux tigerbay 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Oct 7 03:15:25 EDT 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: 9.10.04, ca. 15.00-23.00 UTC
Method: Booted off larger CD (netinst) with new HD; packages downloaded
via ethernet (Cable,NAT) from the.earth.li
Machine: DELL Latitude LS
Processor: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Memory: 128 MB
Root Device: Hitachi 5K80 (40GB) on /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: 39GB on / 1GB swap.
This is from dmesg today:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: HTS548040M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/7877KiB Cache,
CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
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 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 03)
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M
[Tornado] (rev 78)
0000:00:10.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem
56k (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200
[MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20)
0000:01:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200
[MagicMedia 256AV Audio] (rev 20)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 0680: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 03)
0000:00:0a.0 0607: 104c:ac1e
0000:00:0d.0 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 78)
0000:00:10.0 0780: 11c1:0448 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10c8:0005 (rev 20)
0000:01:00.1 0401: 10c8:8005 (rev 20)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't
try it
all ok, except:
Partition hard drives: [whish: enlarging not straightforward]
Reboot: [E on first boot ]
Comments/Problems:
Install went very smooth, just 3 little things:
- I found it hard to have the installer abort the first
apt-get update. I had made a mistake with my network
configuration, resulting in lacking DNS resolution and the
apt-get update endlessly looping over this problem. I
ended up logging in on another console killing processes
until I got back to the 'main' installer menu, where I
could change the setting
- I wanted a larger swap partition than suggested by the
partitioner, and found that process rather complicated.
With just two partitions, I'd like to be able to say
"enlarge this one", and this is automatically taken to
mean "reduce the other one accordingly". Rather than
changing partition sizes, the easiest way turned out to be
to just delete and re-create the swap partition. I'd like
more info/online help available on meaning and use of
logical/extended partitions, and why some mounts should be
of a certain type.
- When rebooting for the first time (the 'smoke test', first
time off newly installed HD), when registering the HD
(somewhere between the dmesg lines copied above) I got a
few error messages about a dma_timer_expiry and dma status
codes of 0x21 and 0x58, the whole boot process eventually
hanging. As my (very noisy) fan didn't stop turning as it
usually does after 2-3 seconds, I switched the laptop off
and, when switching it on again, it would boot up just
normal (as it has done ever since). The only difference I
notice is that I now have two lines
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
whereas before (with my old HD), there had only been one...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
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