Bugzilla – Bug 112880
ata_piix driver no longer loads/initializes properly
Last modified: 2005-08-27 08:06:07 UTC
As of Beta2 the ata_piix driver will not finish loading or initializing. During install the system will stop "Searching for info file" The system is not hard hanging. I can switch to consoles alt-f3 and alt-f4. On f3 console, the last message is 'insmod ..ata_piix' In Beta 1, the driver would load and report an error on the secondary port, and finish loading. I can go back to Beta 1 and get whatever logs would be helpful. It appears that the driver is hanging on the secondary port.
If you switch to a console and issue dmesg, do you see anything interesting?
Unfortunately, the boot process has not even progressed far enough to get a functioning console. I did copy the following lines from the alt-f4 console when booting beta1. I think this would be interesting. . . . 1. Attached SCSI generic sg0 at SCSI0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5 (this should be the cdrom - primary ide master) 2. ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x488 irq 15 3. ATA: abnormal status 0xFF on Port 0x177 4. ata2: disabling port 5. scsi1: ata_piix 6. Losing some ticks checking if CPU frequency changed . . . boot continues normally In the case of booting beta2, the last line on the same console is #1 and nothing further happens. Even in beta 1 the driver appears to be unhappy with the secondary port probing.
Hannes, do you know if we changed some of the piix/ahci loading stuff between beta 1 and 2?
Good news(probably) Beta 3 now behaves like Beta 1 did. The module loads, reports the abnormal status and goes on with the install. I've verified this with both x86_64 and x86 versions. If it stays this way, it appears to be fixed.
Closing as beta2 anomaly, then. Thanks for testing beta3.