Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon
99% chance i the kernel on the Cd is not compadible with athlon, you need
to make your own boot disk, or, if possible it would be easier to install
on a non athlon, upgrade the kernel then move the HD back to the athlon.
you need linux 2.2.13 to boot on athlon.(or newer)
nate
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Alain Birtz wrote:
abz >Hi,
abz >
abz >
abz >I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new
abz >PC.
abz >
abz >However I was not capable to make it to the installer.
abz >
abz >
abz >When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and
abz >then it starts loading stuff, like a normal boot does. However, when
abz >it arrives at the line
abz >
abz >NCR53c406a: no available ports found
abz >
abz >it hangs there.
abz >
abz >The cursors waits at the beginning of the next line.
abz >
abz >
abz >Here is my transcription of the log:
abz >
abz >...
abz >
abz >VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
abz >
abz >VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
abz >
abz > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
abz >
abz > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
abz >
abz >hda: JUBITSU MPE3136AT, ATA DISK drive
abz >
abz >hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVER 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive
abz >
abz >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
abz >
abz >ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
abz >
abz >hda: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, 13031MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1661/255/63
abz >
abz >hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128 kB Cache
abz >
abz >Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
abz >
abz >Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
abz >
abz >FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
abz >
abz >md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
abz >
abz >NCR53c406a: no available ports found
abz >
abz >_ (hangs here)
abz >
abz >
abz >
abz >I looked in the Learning Debian book for boot arguments, and I found
abz >NCR53c406a corresponded to NCR 53c406a-based SCSI host adapters:
abz >
abz >
abz >I have NO SCSI device on my computer, I only have an IDE HD. Therefore
abz >I find rather normal that it cannot find 'ports' for it since there are
abz >none.
abz >
abz >
abz >I tried using max-scsi-luns=0 (and =1) arguments to prevent it to scan
abz >for SCSI device...it still hangs at the same point.
abz >
abz >
abz >I tried using ncr53c406a=0 to disable interrupts and it didn't work
abz >too
abz >
abz >
abz >I also tried disabling several BIOS options that could have lead to
abz >trouble...no luck.
abz >
abz >
abz >But, when I gave boot arg pci=off, I got 2 extra lines before hangs:
abz >
abz >
abz >NCR53c406a: no available ports found
abz >
abz >eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still
abz >depends on it.
abz >
abz >o Skipping can for PCI HBAs.
abz >
abz ><<hangs>
abz >
abz >
abz >Some people told me that, because of my Athlon processor, I should try
abz >boot floppies with potato.
abz >
abz >
abz >I made the floppies and was able to boot from the rescue floppy. It
abz >asked me for the root disk and I put it in.
abz >
abz >
abz >It loads the the ramdisk, free some memory, then freezes.
abz >
abz >
abz >here is the log:
abz >
abz >VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press
abz >ENTER
abz >
abz >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
abz >
abz >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
abz >
abz >Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
abz >
abz >_ <<hangs here>
abz >
abz >
abz >Here is the list of my hardware:
abz >
abz >AMD Athlon 550 Mgz
abz >
abz >1 IDE hard-disk: 13 gig
abz >
abz >128 meg of RAM
abz >
abz >Nothing SCSI
abz >
abz >FUJITSU motherboard (AMI BIOS )
abz >
abz >Sceptre Monitor 17 inch (VGA comptible)
abz >
abz >S3 Trio3D/2X cheap graphic card
abz >
abz >Ethernet card: StarTech
abz >
abz >
abz >Do you have any idea of what could be wrong?
abz >
abz >
abz >Thanks,
abz >
abz >-Laurent Birtz
abz >
abz >
abz ><<abz@videotronc.ca>
abz >
abz >Alain Birtz
abz >
abz >Qc, Canada
abz >
abz >Internet: abz@videotron.ca, abirtz@cegepsth.qc.ca
abz >
abz >
abz >
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