Bug 11720
| Summary: | eepro100 hangs at boot | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | jcoy |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-06-07 16:47:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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i have the same problem, i have a compaq m/c i found the following work arounds that sometimes work: 1. change the HDD timing in BIOS to PIO mode 4 and disable DMA for the bus or 2. in case you have a UDMA/66 capable HDD, edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file in the FIRST line put the following line: /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d1 -c1 -m16 -k1 -u1 /dev/hda THIS IS DANGEROUS!!! make sure these work for you and read hdparm(8) HJ figured this one out. You shouldnt see a problem with the 2.2.16 kernel in errata. Let me know (ie reopen) if you do Alan |
I have a bunch of motherboards with an on-board eepro100. Often, these system hangs at boot durring the "initialize eth0". I have waited as long as an hour and it never gets past that point. If you boot with "linux single", and run: cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ./ifup eth0 It hangs as well. This happens more frequently on a warm boot then a cold boot, but that might only be because it gets warm booted more often then cold booted. I have upgraded the system to kernel v2.2.14-12, same problem.