Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 4167
Sony VAIO locks up on boot.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:51 EDT
Hello, Im having a small problem with my new notebook, it locks up a majority of the time at startup with an 'unable to mount root fs' error message. This happens most of the time unfortunatly, and i have to turn off and on the notebook as many as 10 times sometime before it works... (for an unknown reason) I have a Sony Z-505SX notebook and other than the sound card not being supported yet, everything else seems to work fine with it... Im running redhat 6.0, i did a dmesg and a few other dumps and attached them to this bug report, i hope i didnt leave out any important information :) -Ralph Bonnell (www.ralph.cx) ###Bad Boot: Linux version 2.3.11 (root@sony.z.aubbs.cx) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Thu Jul 22 12:27:31 EDT 1999 INITIALIZING CPU#0 Detected 364739803 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 363.72 BogoMIPS Memory: 127608k/131008k available (948k kernel code, 412k reserved, 2000k data, 40k init) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium II stepping 0a Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35 (19990512) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9d4 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:48 PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:58 PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:58 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.3 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 131072) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09a Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.19 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, 6194MB w/420kB Cache, CHS=839/240/63 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is unknown type 12 (usb?), fd1 is 2.88M AMI BIOS floppy0: no floppy controllers found The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0013->0017. eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xfcc0, 08:00:46:04:3A:68, IRQ 9. Board assembly 100001-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). Receiver lock-up workaround activated. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 > VFS: Cannot open root device 00:30 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:30 ### Normal Boot: ... Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed Adding Swap: 136040k swap-space (priority -1) uhci_control_thread at c8019cec New bus registered uhci_connect_change: called for 0 USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 ... ### LSPCI: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03) 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 (rev 08) 00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20) 00:08.1 Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation: Unknown device 8005 (rev 20) 00:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8009 (rev 01) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5C475 00:0b.0 Communication controller: Rockwell International: Unknown device 2005 (rev 01) ### LSMOD: Module Size Used by vmnet 9856 4 vmmon 10944 0 mouse 1960 1 usb-uhci 12588 1 usbcore 12256 0 [mouse usb-uhci] nfsd 154048 8 (autoclean) ### DF: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda11 153726 46322 99468 32% / /dev/hda1 21924 8876 11916 43% /boot /dev/hda10 1955208 12204 1842080 1% /home /dev/hda7 204951 19614 174755 10% /tmp /dev/hda6 1589064 1304180 202860 87% /usr /dev/hda5 1984488 125556 1756496 7% /usr/local /dev/hda9 102468 25260 71918 26% /var
oh, it did the same thing on the 2.2.5 kernel (stock redhat) as well :)
What happens if you boot with the 'apm=off' option? (Unrelated question: is that a real modem, or a WinModem?)
Another thing to try is to boot with mem=127M (or some other lower number.)
the apm and the mem option worked :) yay! thanx :) i think ill use the mem option (since i use apm) , where can i put that in the boot? (/etc/lilo.conf?) as for the modem, i thing its a Rockwell based pci winmodem :( here is the bottom of the CAT PCI output (retyped.. im too lazy to grab a patch cable, my baystack switch is in the other room and im in bed): Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Communication controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=127a. Device id=2005. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=64. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfece0000 [0xfece0000]. I/O at 0xfca8 [0xfca9]. -Ralph Bonnell -www.ralph.cx
You'd put something in your lilo.conf like: append="mem=127M" Unfortunately, it does look like all of the Rockwell PCI modems are WinModems. :(