I have upgraded my RedHat Linux 6.2fr to 7.0. When I boot my PC with Linux, the controller is badly recognized, but it works. But, when rebooting and going back to Windows, the hard disks go very slowly. I must turn off the computer and switch it on again to restore a proper function. It sometimes happens with a direct boot to Windows, so it seems to be in Lilo, but it is maybe 1% of the direct boot. As a second boot, the problem is nearly always. It had never happened before the installation of RedHat 6.2 + Lilo. My computer is a Packard Bell "Club 2500c". ****** I do not know the component name *****
Passed to QA to reproduce.
hmmm ... can you attach the output from dmesg ... it should list your hard drives ...
Created attachment 5340 [details] Result of dmesg
I do not understand why the status is still NEEDINFO. I have created an attachement with the information required...
hi Jean! Thanks for your dmesg output ... your hard drives list is fairly sane, but we have not heard other reports of folks with these drives having this problem nor are we able to reproduce the behavior in our test lab ... one thing to try, since you think that lilo may have something to do with the situation. Can you make a floppy bootdisk, and then uninstall lilo from the hard drive ...? If so, do these problems persist when you boot linux from the floppy (and have the mbr restored to what it was before lilo) ...? additionally, as the bug reporter, you are free to change the state of the bug as needed, and so the reporter usually changes the bug state from needinfo when replying with the necessary information ... sorry if that wasn't clear ... :)
I cannot restore the standard Windows 98 boot sector, because I had a crash on my first install and the second destroyed the save file. Maybe you could send me a procedure or a Windows program, to dump the memory and the disk controller registers, in order to send you an image of the system. The problem is now at every reboot.
I believe you can use a windows boot floppy with the DOS FDISK program on it, boot this and run 'fdisk /mbr'. This should let you reboot into windows.
It's OK. I have made a Linux floppy disk with mkbootdisk, uninstall Lilo with lilo -u, and restored my Windows boot record with fdisk /mbr (I did not know this option). Great thanks. You can close this bug for me. But it remain that something seems not to initialise correctly the controler. I have forwarded the problem to Packard Bell, for a BIOS enhancement, but I have no answer...
Ok glad everything is back to normal.
Some more information about my disk controller: Even having restored the normal Windows boot, I still have the problem (I thought it was stopped, but it still happens). I think that the problem does not come from the Lilo boot, but either from the i810 controller or from my BIOS. I suppose it is because my EIDE bus is full (2 hard disks, 1 DVD and 1 CD-Writer) and, so, maybe it is not correctly supported. You told me, in a previous message, that you could not reproduce the problem, but maybe with this clue you can... if it has any interest for you.