Bugzilla – Bug 106747
insmod ata_piix hangs
Last modified: 2006-03-16 15:40:03 UTC
Booting from Installation Disk hangs after unsuccessful detection of PCMCIA-Devices. This happens on a Dell Ispiron 9300 Deluxe Laptop
Stefan, this may be something for your team.
I think this is not a bug with PCMCIA but SATA. Do you have a SATA CDrom e.g.? Please look at console 4 (while installation is still active) and look what the last insmod-line is. I think it will be something like ata_xii
The Laptop has no SATA-Device. The problem happens while booting the System from the Installation-CD
Please add 'NOPCMCIA=1' to the boot prompt and try again.
.. now it hangs after ... searching for info file...
That is not a pcmcia problem. Steffen, i don't know how to proceed. Would you please take this?
Andreas, please look at console 3 and 4 for what it is doing last.
console 3: insmod /modules/ata_piix.ko console 4: uniform CD_ROM driver rev 2.30 attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi1, channel 0, id0, lun0, type 5 ... but the Laptop has no SCSI ..
Ok, some wild guess: a) try (at boot prompt) 'brokenmodules=ata_piix' b) try acpi=off Does a) get you any further?
in case of a) no installation Drive is found in case of b) console 3: insmod /modules/ata_piix.ko console 4: uniform CD_ROM driver rev 2.30 attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi1, channel 0, id0, lun0, type 5
To make sure, please start with 'manual=2'. When linuxrc shows the first dialog, switch to console 9. On the shell there run 'modprobe ata_piix'. Does it hang? If not, can you continue the installation?
the modprobe command hangs. the installation continues but wasn't able to mount the CD-ROM
Thanks. This points to a kernel problem. insmod ata_piix must not hang.
Could I please get a sysrq+t and sysrq+p from the hang? (See Using sysrq on http://opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#Kernel_Bugs; you may need a serial console in case dmesg doesn't show the whole output.)
No feedback => closing.
(In reply to comment #15) > No feedback => closing. sorry, but i had some problems with my internet connection. Today it works ...... since weeks .. I try first the RC 1 and if the problem happens again i reopen the Ticket
Hi All well i have the same problem .. modprobe ata_piix hangs during installation My notebook is acer travelmate 4150 what should be done now ?
Does this bug still occur?
I assume that this has been fixed already; we didn't get any more reports of this kind of problem.