Re: Knoppix 5.3 something causes loop
That did indeed fix it.
Thank You.
On 3/10/08, John Woods <gtbutton@gmail.com> wrote:
> After fudging email addresses I will...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Klaus Knopper <rem@v.edu>
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:54:23 +0100
> Subject: Re: Knoppix 5.3 something causes loop
> To: John Woods <rem@v.edu>
>
> Hi John,
> If you like,please forward this to the list, if you think it's useful.
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:19:28PM -0400, John Woods wrote:
> > Hi Klaus,
> >
> > Apologies for writing to you, instead of the list. I was not sure what
> > to do, in this case.
> >
> > I recently grabbed the 5.3 knoppix via torrent. I was also seeding it.
> > I finally decided to try it and booted it in my usual manner, the
> > fromhd=/dev/partition/ which has /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX2 with
> > the other files.
> > It looks like I had no disk in /dev/hdc, but this happened when there
> > is a disk in the drive. /dev/hdc should be my dvd burner. It was
> > detected as such in the autoconfig output.
> > Just before I get to runlevel 2, I get a looping output of...
> >
> > hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> > ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > hdc: drive not ready for command
> > over and over.
> > This is a old 2004 bios board with AMD 2400+ cpu and Via chipset so
> > commonly seen.
> > Just a heads up to you. Somethings different.
> I have seen this, too, on a HP notebook and I think it's a bug in the
> atapi code of
> Kernel 2.6.24(.0), which may or may not go away with the next
> patchlevel. This workaround worked for me:
> knoppix ide1=reset
> which will reset the second and third IDE device after the ports have
> been probed. This was especially handy for cases where booting from CD
> resulted in a "filesystem not found" message after long DMA timeouts
> (with "nodma" having no effect).
> > Otoh, I could have, probably have done something wrong.
> You surely didn't, I'm quite sure it's a kernel bug in the IDE drivers
> of early 2.6.24. ;-)
> Regards
> -Klaus Knopper
>
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