Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62471
Kernel 2.4.18-0.12 hangs in partition check
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
Something between kernel-2.4.18-0.10 and kernel-2.4.18-0.12 caused my system not to boot after upgrade. The system just says partition check: hde: ...and hangs there. The 0.10 (and 0.4) kernel works fine. My system is a RH7.2, P3, Abit BE6-II, HighPoint HPT366 with kernel and XFree86 updated (needed for ATI Radeon 7500 support), and root partition /dev/hde5. /sbin/lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA 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) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 16) 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. HPT366/370 UltraDMA 66/100 IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:13.1 Unknown mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. HPT366/370 UltraDMA 66/100 IDE Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5157 I'll provide more info if needed.
investigating
There are some issues with the hpt driver in 2.4.18-0.12. I've put an experimental(!!) fix in 2.4.18-0.13 which I hope will appear in rawhide soon. Once it does, would you mind testing that ?
Yes, I'll give it a try when I get my hands on it...
Unfortunately, the -0.13 behaves exactly the same as -0.12 here, still doesn't boot, hangs in partition check. BTW, "rpm -q --changelog -p kernel-2.4.18-0.13..." doesn't output the change log any more, was it omitted from this build for some reason?
Same problem here still with 2.4.18-0.16.
Duplicated here: 00:0b.0 Unknown mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. HPT366/370 UltraDMA 66/100 IDE Controller (rev 03) Same symptoms, still hangs with .16.
Booting with "ide=nodma" works to get .16 booting on my hpt370 box.
One more data point: 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 stalls in the same way, both with and without CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO. Without CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 the box does boot, but we appear to lose all interrupts from the HPT card --- every IO needs an IDE timeout to succeed. (DMA in use in all these cases.)
Please try 2.4.18-0.18 when it appears in rawhide; it's supposed to fix this
Ah, 2.4.18-0.18 boots nicely here (out of the box, no ide=whatever tweaks). Thanks so far...
2.4.18-0.18, 2.4.18-0.21 and 2.4.18-0.22 work fine here, so I'm closing this bug (if Bugzilla allows me to do it, we'll see in a moment :) Thanks...