Can't boot stable/sarge on new Intel D102GGC2L mainboard while USB is enabled

[Jonathan Wilson <jw@mailsw.com>]

For the archives:

The local company I've been purchasing workstations from has recently begun 
using a newer model of mainboard, the Intel D102GGC2L mainboard. As best I 
can tell these are pretty new. They use the LGA775 chipset ,RC410 Northbridge 
and IXP 450 Southbridge - I don't know if these chipsets has been around for 
a while or not.

Anyway, stable/sarge will not boot on these new mainboards, though SuSE 10.1  
is booting just fine on them.

The sarge NetInstall boots and installs to the disk just fine, then when I try 
to boot the installed system, Sarge starts to boot and then, shortly after 
setting the RTC and mounting the filesystem prints the following errors to 
the console:

Starting hotplug subsystem:
    pci
        8139too: already loaded

8139cp 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
insmod: /libmodules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o: init_module: No 
such device
insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect modules parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
               You may find more information in syslog or the output from 
dmesg
insmod: /libmodules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o: insmod 8139cp  
failed 
         8139cp: can't be loaded
missing kernel or user mode driver 8139cp
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
ehci_hcd 00:13.2: PCI device 1002:4373 (ATI Technologies Inc)
ehci_hcd 00:13.2: irq 11, pci mem f8873000
usb.c new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 00:13.2: BIOS handoff failed (160, 1010001)


After that, the system stops booting (though it's not completely frozen, 
because I can still Ctrl+Alt+Del).

If it matters, I'm using an IDE drive, not a SerialATA.

I discovered that if I completely disable USB in the BIOS ("USB: Disable", 
"USB 2.0: Disable", "USB Legacy: Disable") that the system will boot ok.

I also disabled the floppy controller, though I don't know if that helped or 
not.

Just thought I'd post this info to the archives in case anyone else runs into 
this problem and goes a-searching.

sarge (and therefore my system) uses kernel 2.4 by default, it's quite likely 
that recent versions of kernel 2.6 will be ok (I guess that's why SuSE 10.1 
is ok).

Thanks,

	JW

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