Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57622
Boot-up hangs when initializing PCMCIA
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:01:36 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: I installed RH 7.2 on a MP978 (Chicony) laptop. When I tried to boot from CD, the installer hang when initializing PC-cards. I booted from a floppy and could continue the installation. When the installation was finished and I booted up the computer, the boot- up hung when initializing PCMCIA. This did not happen with RH 7.0. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RedHat 7.2 2. Reboot the computer 3. Wait Actual Results: The computer hung. Expected Results: The PCIMCIA services should have started and the boot- up would have finished, allowing me to use the computer. Additional info: No error messages were reported.
The same result with Compal CL10 based notebook and RedHat 7.1
I am using 7.3 with a Compal ACL10 and the same result.
It is posible to install from cd-rom with 'pci=off' kernel option.
Some more information. Compal CL10 (ACL10) has O2 Micro’s OZ6933 CardBus Controller. Tested OS – RedHat 7.3. The first boot after installation runs OK. The second boot and others hang on PCMCIA starting. After booting with PCMCIA switched off, ‘modprobe pcmcia_core’ is OK. ‘modprobe yenta_socket’ puts messages PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 02:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:04.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. and then hangs. Pci=biosirq option provides no help.
Created attachment 66244 [details] A kernel patch to run Linux on ACL10 laptops (tested with kernel 2.4.18-5)
OK! At last, I have found workarounds for running Linux on ACL10 laptops. 1. A patch for Redhat’s Linux kernel 2.4.18-5, but I think that patch is suitable for other releases of 2.4 kernel. Patched file is arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c. The pci-pc.acl10.diff patch in attachment to Bug# 57622. 2. To run nvidia driver you need an updated BIOS. The BIOS that I used from http://www.v-service.ru/FTP_Files/Notebook/BIOS/CL10/130.zip. Last BIOS from www.compal.com marked as v0.5A and I did not experiment with it.
Ok unfortionatly I can't add this patch, since it affects ALL notebooks with this chipset not just your model ;( Maybe if you send dmidecode output (dmidecode is part of the kernel-utils package) I can try to make it for your laptop only
Sure pci-pc.c is not right place for that patch, it is only short cut workaround. I tried to put the code in dmi_scan.c, but got conclusion that global pci_dev info structure was not initialized at stage of execution of dmi_scan, so moved the code to pci-pc.c. In reference to dmidecode output, I will send it in a few day.
Created attachment 66744 [details] DMI BIOS dump for Compal ACL10 laptop
Original BIOS on laptop was version "V0.05" release "02/09/2001"