Bug 85431 - Boot hang with 2.4.18-24 kernel and Shuttle SS51G
Summary: Boot hang with 2.4.18-24 kernel and Shuttle SS51G
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-02 17:23 UTC by Andy Wray
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:40:35 UTC
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Description Andy Wray 2003-03-02 17:23:13 UTC
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Description of problem:
After upgrading to kernel 2.4.18-24, the system hangs on boot on a 
Shuttle SS51G.  There is a single hard drive attached to the first IDE
controller, on the SiSE962 chip.  The drive is an IBM DTLA-307020
(20GB, ATA100).  The system does boot with the 2.4.18-10 kernel OK.
The grub settings are:

default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-24.7.xsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.7xsmp ro root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.7.xsmp.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-10)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-10 ro root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi ide0=ata66
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-10.img

Also, cat /proc/scsi/sis shows:

SiS 5513 DMA 16 chipset

Primary Channel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Channel Status: O
Operation Mode: Compatible
Prefetch Count: 0
Drive 0:        Postwrite Disabled
                Prefetch  Disabled
                Data Active Time   8 PCICLK
                Data Recovery Time 12 PCICLK
Drive 1:        Postwrite Disabled
                Prefetch  Disabled
                Data Active Time   8 PCICLK
                Data Recovery Time 12 PCICLK
   
Secondary Channel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Channel Status: O
Operation Mode: Compatible
Prefetch Count: 0
Drive 0:        Postwrite Disabled
                Prefetch  Disabled
                Data Active Time   8 PCICLK
                Data Recovery Time 12 PCICLK
Drive 1:        Postwrite Disabled
                Prefetch  Disabled
                Data Active Time   8 PCICLK
                Data Recovery Time 12 PCICLK

The actual point at which the system hangs with the 2.4.18-24 kernel
is:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6:31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

After this I get no further output and I can do nothing with the
system except power cycle or hit the reset button.

Also, I should not that I was running the i686 smp version of the
kernel, although the system is not an SMP box.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Attempt to boot the 2.4.18-24 kernel from the hard drive on a Shuttle
SS51G (using the on-board IDE controller in the SiS962 chip).

Actual Results:  System hung.

Expected Results:  System should have continued booting.

Additional info:

I did try the ide0=ata66 parameter with the 2.4.17-24 kernel, but
this did not help.  I have not tried changing the BIOS settings
for the IDE controller.

Comment 1 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:40:35 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/



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