@Hypex

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Hypex wrote: @Geri Quote: Anyway I guess you can disable the driver with "floppy.blacklist=yes". That's good to know if we need it. I can see an advanced options page come up.

As far a I know the kernel does not actively probe for a floppy controller (even if it could look for a floppy controller node in the device tree). I had to explicitly include the floppy module in the initramfs for my 2.6.32 kernel to get the driver loaded (I use a "modules" file now to limit the number of modules in the initramfs to keep it small). Thus simply removing it from the initramfs should also do the trick.

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Just another patch.

But a patch for the A1 U-Boot firmware.

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Quote: I think it may depend on the order of the PCI devices, as the uhci_hcd driver is loaded a long time before the kernel even knows about your card reader. THat's a good point. That could be it!

I'll check again what happens on my A1XE with these drivers. I'll just have to get it running again first (I completely forgot that I used some parts of it to recover my x86 machine ).

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Quote: I currently have the uhci_hcd driver blacklisted Is that for your SE?

Yes. Unfortunately EHCI doesn't work well with mass storage devices on this machine, too. I still need to test OHCI.

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Quote: Thanks! It was the most complex installation I ever did. And I was so close.

Well, I had the idea to use a statically linked version of cdebootstrap to install the system. I found a version for Lenny on archive.debian.org and thus had to try it out!

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I plan to test a whole install again, but wish you could tell it to procede with "unclean" target and skip the base install. Then I could see if all goes well.

What do you mean with "unclean" target?

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It is hard to work around this. I wonder if ub2lb works the same as SLB. Then a special debug UB2LB coud be created.

I guess I should try out an older version of the slb_v2. IIRC I have version 1.19 installed at the moment. Which version do you use on your A1?

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Then I can rebuild the installer with that version for the next release. Hopefully a full one!

Interestingly the kernel runs a lot more stable on the A1SE (but with PIO mode for IDE and SATA controllers naturally) than on my A1XE. Even direct rendering with the software rasterizer is usable (hardware acceleration also seems to work, but is a little bit unstable).

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@Geri

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Thus simply removing it from the initramfs should also do the trick.

Looks easy enough with some options on doing so.

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But a patch for the A1 U-Boot firmware.

No that's too far. Kernel only.

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I'll just have to get it running again first

With better parts than your x86 machine?

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Unfortunately EHCI doesn't work well with mass storage devices

What about other devices? Does EHCI work at all?

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I found a version for Lenny on archive.debian.org and thus had to try it out!

It was just too tempting.

Well I did get Ubuntu on my machine years ago.

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What do you mean with "unclean" target?

What I mean is if you select an existing Linux volume as a target mount point in the installer and don't format it you will get warnings about an unclean target.

I wish the installer could use this as a base and simply finish or skip the base system install. Even scannning the volume and checking what base components are installed would be satisfactory.

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Which version do you use on your A1?

Same as you, 1.19.

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Interestingly the kernel runs a lot more stable on the A1SE

That is. How did you set PIO for controllers? Using libata?

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Even direct rendering with the software rasterizer is usable

That's good news.

@Geri

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I am trying to get my Desktop Magic program for OS4 completed and have been focusing in that for the past couple of weeks.
Here is the situation....just so we are all on the same page.....

With your help and UBOOT setting suggestions, I have been able to access the SATA portion of my VIA multicard (the one that is USB2+SATA+RAID/PATA) when it is plugged into the PCI slot of my micro A1. The RAID part of it still doesn't seem to work, and USB2 still locks up...perhaps we'll get to that later.
When I took out the multicard and put in my SIL0680 controller in the single PCI slot of my micro, and took out the SATA UBOOT hacks (necessary when I remove the multicard by the way, or funny things happen), I set up Lenny to boot from my SIL card which has a 160G drive (with my root Lenny partition on it).
I have my 80 Gig drive connected to the micros internal IDE bus. My startup parameters for Lenny have NODMA set. But I am unable to see or access the hard drive connected to the internal IDE port of the micro when I boot from the SIL0680 card into Lenny.

You asked for lsmod, and for my dmesg output.

Here is lsmod:

debian:/# lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 13256 1
rfcomm 44860 2
l2cap 24964 9 rfcomm
bluetooth 58988 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10852 0
lp 14800 0
dm_mod 64656 0
snd_via82xx 36952 0
snd_cmipci 61732 1
gameport 17192 2 snd_via82xx,snd_cmipci
snd_opl3_lib 13600 1 snd_cmipci
snd_hwdep 10884 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 10240 2 snd_via82xx,snd_cmipci
snd_seq_dummy 4036 0
snd_seq_oss 40372 0
snd_seq_midi 9856 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8032 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_via82xx_modem 20200 0
snd_ac97_codec 111136 2 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem
snd_ac97_bus 2336 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq 60520 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 51680 0
snd_mixer_oss 20544 1 snd_pcm_oss
i2c_viapro 12304 0
via686a 21736 0
i2c_isa 5504 1 via686a
snd_pcm 90756 5 snd_via82xx,snd_cmipci,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 26532 3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11848 3 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_pcm
snd_rawmidi 29088 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 9420 6 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 65556 17 snd_via82xx,snd_cmipci,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10980 1 snd
evdev 12224 1
joydev 11776 0

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@Geri

Here is my dmesg output:

Total memory = 512MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at c0400000)
Linux version 2.6.18 (2.6.18) (root@europa) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #4 Sat Nov 24 21:02:24 CET 2012
Creating PCI host controller
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
DMA zone: 131072 pages, LIFO batch:31
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 131072
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ide=reverse hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe ide=nodma l2cr=0x80000000
ide_setup: ide=reverse : Enabled support for IDE inverse scan order.
ide_setup: hde=noprobe
ide_setup: hdf=noprobe
ide_setup: ide=nodma : Prevented DMA
l2cr set to 80000000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
calibrate_decr: decrementer frequency = 33.333333.6 MHz
ticks per jiffy = 133333, tb_to_us = 128849020
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 514688k available (2732k kernel code, 984k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 1597.44 BogoMIPS (lpj=3194880)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI quirk: region 6000-607f claimed by vt82c686 HW-mon
PCI quirk: region 5000-500f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:00.0
AmigaOne: Applying PCI/ISA bridge BIOS fixes.
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 32768)
TCP reno registered
Thermal assist unit using timers, shrink_timer: 500 jiffies
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1357811071.204:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Emitting soft resume event to power up.
radeonfb (0000:01:00.0): Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55
xtal calculation failed: 22967
radeonfb: Used default PLL infos
radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=60) Memory=166.00 Mhz, System=166.00 MHz
radeonfb: PLL min 12000 max 35000
radeonfb: Monitor 1 type CRT found
radeonfb: EDID probed
radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found
Display is GTF capable
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
radeonfb (0000:01:00.0): ATI Radeon QY
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xfa8a0000
fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
nbd: registered device at major 43
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:00:06.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at fc002000.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:08.0
SiI680: chipset revision 2
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133
SiI680: 100% native mode on irq 9
ide0: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST3160212ACE, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22NP21, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0xe100c180-0xe100c187,0xe100c18a on irq 9
Probing IDE interface ide1...
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:07.1, from 255 to 0
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
hda: max request size: 64KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: RDSK (512) hda1 (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1) hda2 (LNX^@)(res 2 spb 1) hda3 (SFS^@)(res 2 spb 1) hda4 (LNX^@)(res 2 spb 2) hda5 (SFS^B)(res 2 spb 1) hda6 (SFS^@)(res 2 spb 1) hda7 (SFS^B)(res 2 spb 1) hda8 (SFS^B)(res 2 spb 1) hda9 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1) hda10 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1) hda11 (SFS^@)(res 2 spb 1) hda12 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1) hda13 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1) hda14 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1) hda15 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1) hda16 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1)
hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 2.00 loaded.
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 5, io base 0x00802080
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 5, io base 0x008020a0
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i2c /dev entries driver
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k init
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 1
input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse as /class/input/input1
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000]
codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x13c0000]
codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x13c0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000]
AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
VIA 82xx Modem: probe of 0000:00:07.6 failed with error -5
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:05.0 (0084 -> 0085)
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000]
codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x1000000]
codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x1000000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000]
AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
VIA 82xx Audio: probe of 0000:00:07.5 failed with error -5
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
eth0: setting full-duplex.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.10
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

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@Geri

In my dmesg output, you will notice that the codecs for mixer do not seem to work. I installed mixer using apt-get install a long time ago, and it has never worked. However, something it did (I think) caused my sound to work in Lenny because before that sound didn't work at all. Now if I run Rock Dodgers, for example, I hear the sounds from the game.
Should I go ahead and uninstall mixer?

Scott

Last edited by scabit on 10-Jan-2013 at 03:18 PM.

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@scabit

At this point, if you have any spare space, you could try to install Squeeze using my beta installer linked to in this thread.

Though it looks like I will need to update the IDE setup as IDE DMA can be disabled but SATA is not covered.

hi, i'm just trying the new installer, but after succesful loading the kernel my amigaone xe stucks on
"loading ramkdisk to .., end to ... OK"
sil3112, sata hd, ide cdrom, dma off...any suggest?

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@Hypex

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you could try to install Squeeze using my beta installer linked to in this thread.

I hope to give it a try in a few days....

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@damned

I did a test. I booted the CD and turned DMA off for all controllers. It worked fine.

But, I think this may be a hardware problem rather than software. I've seen this on my system when my RAM went bad. Have you ever tested it using memtester in a boot shell?

If you can, test another Linux install or kernel. With bad RAM OS4 will happily go along but Linux will get stuck or panic. Check your RAM stick(s) and perhaps reseat them.

Another thing I found is that hooking up a serial terminal and watching the output can get it past and booting. Seems strange but it has worked.

Apart from that cheack against these MD5Sums. The ISO should be ~49MB.

MD5Sum "RAM Disk:DebianInstaller.iso"
d4c15a17fe9222c790078ae494516f56 RAM Disk:DebianInstaller.iso

MD5Sum "RAM Disk:DebianInstaller.lha"
084410a168098ab36a380c76877476a5 RAM Disk:DebianInstaller.lha

Last edited by Hypex on 15-Jan-2013 at 05:36 AM.

@Hypex

hmm, i don't think the problem is the ram...i've 3 linux installation without any problems..
i will try to find a serial cable..

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@damned

Okay.... What kernel versions are they using?

And perhaps a copy of your bootargs will help.

You could also test booting the install image off you HDD. You can copy the boot/boot.img (IIRC) onto your /boot volume and create a new menu entry to boot it off HDD.

Another thing, how much memory do you have? And what VGA card?

@Hypex

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Hypex wrote: @Geri Quote: Thus simply removing it from the initramfs should also do the trick. Looks easy enough with some options on doing so.

Remind me to send you the "modules" file for the initramfs. You will need it, if you switch to the 2.6.32 or newer kernel some day.

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Quote: But a patch for the A1 U-Boot firmware. No that's too far. Kernel only.

True, but things like this would be the firmware's job.

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Quote: I'll just have to get it running again first With better parts than your x86 machine?

Almost. The x86 got its old Geforce3 back and my A1XE its Radeon9200 (it already has a RadeonHD 4350 for DRM/KMS testing).

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What about other devices? Does EHCI work at all?

EHCI works for some time, e.g. you can list the content of a mass storage device. But as soon as you try to transfer a lot of data it suddenly stops working even if the machine still runs. The onboard ethernet seems to have the same problem for high transfer rates (> 10MBit/s). I have to check, if it works with another network card.

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It was just too tempting.

Yup!

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Quote: What do you mean with "unclean" target? What I mean is if you select an existing Linux volume as a target mount point in the installer and don't format it you will get warnings about an unclean target. I wish the installer could use this as a base and simply finish or skip the base system install. Even scannning the volume and checking what base components are installed would be satisfactory.

I don't think this is supported by the debian-installer. After all it is an installer and not an automatic recovery program for Debian installations.

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Same as you, 1.19.

This slb_v2 drives me

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Quote: Interestingly the kernel runs a lot more stable on the A1SE That is. How did you set PIO for controllers? Using libata?

With "libata.dma=0".

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Quote: Even direct rendering with the software rasterizer is usable That's good news.

But it's damn slow compared to hardware rendering.

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@scabit

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scabit wrote: @Geri Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I am trying to get my Desktop Magic program for OS4 completed and have been focusing in that for the past couple of weeks.

Sorry also from my side. I have been busy with other things, too.

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With your help and UBOOT setting suggestions, I have been able to access the SATA portion of my VIA multicard (the one that is USB2+SATA+RAID/PATA) when it is plugged into the PCI slot of my micro A1. The RAID part of it still doesn't seem to work, and USB2 still locks up...perhaps we'll get to that later.

RAID functionality is usually a software thing on cheap controllers like this and thus will never work (x86 only). PATA naturally is a driver problem, which can be solved later on by an upgrade to a newer kernel version. USB2.0 is another topic: I still puzzle how I can debug this...

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When I took out the multicard and put in my SIL0680 controller in the single PCI slot of my micro, and took out the SATA UBOOT hacks (necessary when I remove the multicard by the way, or funny things happen), I set up Lenny to boot from my SIL card which has a 160G drive (with my root Lenny partition on it).

Okay. I guess you're using disk labels now so that you can easily move the harddisk(s) around!?

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I have my 80 Gig drive connected to the micros internal IDE bus. My startup parameters for Lenny have NODMA set. But I am unable to see or access the hard drive connected to the internal IDE port of the micro when I boot from the SIL0680 card into Lenny. You asked for lsmod, and for my dmesg output.

Arrgh! I forgot that the driver for the onboard IDE controller is compiled into the kernel image. So the lsmod output looks okay.

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scabit wrote: @Geri Here is my dmesg output: Total memory = 512MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at c0400000) Linux version 2.6.18 (2.6.18) (root@europa) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #4 Sat Nov 24 21:02:24 CET 2012 Creating PCI host controller On node 0 totalpages: 131072 DMA zone: 131072 pages, LIFO batch:31 Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 131072 Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ide=reverse hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe ide=nodma l2cr=0x80000000 ide_setup: ide=reverse : Enabled support for IDE inverse scan order. ide_setup: hde=noprobe ide_setup: hdf=noprobe ide_setup: ide=nodma : Prevented DMA

Wait, wait, wait! You set ide=reverse and hde/f=noprobe, thus the primary IDE channel of the onboard IDE controller is never probed for an IDE device. Can you remove the hde/f=noprobe options from the kernel command line and try again?

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VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:07.1, from 255 to 0 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3...

Where is the harddrive connected on the onboard IDE controller? On the primary or secondary port? Note that Linux doesn't care about U-Boot's "swap IDE channels" option!

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codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000] codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x13c0000] codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x13c0000] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000] AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer. VIA 82xx Modem: probe of 0000:00:07.6 failed with error -5 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:05.0 (0084 -> 0085) codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000] codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x1000000] codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x1000000] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000] AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer. VIA 82xx Audio: probe of 0000:00:07.5 failed with error -5 ... In my dmesg output, you will notice that the codecs for mixer do not seem to work.

That's okay, because these messages come from the sound driver for the VIA southbridge, which simply cannot find any AC'97 sound codec. But lsmod output shows that the driver for the uA1's extra sound chip is loaded (snd_cmipci).

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I installed mixer using apt-get install a long time ago, and it has never worked. However, something it did (I think) caused my sound to work in Lenny because before that sound didn't work at all. Now if I run Rock Dodgers, for example, I hear the sounds from the game. Should I go ahead and uninstall mixer?

I don't think you need it, so you can uninstall it. Just make sure that ALSA is configured to use the snd-cmipci sound driver (which it probably does now). If not, you can run alsaconf to fix this.

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@damned

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damned wrote: @Hypex hmm, i don't think the problem is the ram...i've 3 linux installation without any problems.. i will try to find a serial cable..

That would be helpful!

@Hypex

Would it be possible to add a Debug option to the installer, which adds "debug initcall_debug" options to the kernel command line? That would make it easier to debug lockups like this over a serial cable.

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Hypex wrote: @damned Okay.... What kernel versions are they using? And perhaps a copy of your bootargs will help.

Yes, these are valuable information!

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@Geri

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Remind me to send you the "modules" file for the initramfs

Oh can you send me the initramfs modules for 2.6.32? Thanks.

BTW, can these be extracted from a 2.6.32 boot initramfs?

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EHCI works for some time, e.g. you can list the content of a mass storage device.

Well that is a start. But we need a middle and end as well.

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After all it is an installer and not an automatic recovery program

But what about rescure mode? Surely they would have included a base system check? Seems logical to me. Suppose they would need to extract persomal info entered and then unpack packages but pretend to install them and instead do a file or MD5 check.

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This slb_v2 drives me :Crazy

It does when you can't crack the SLB code. Now where's that v3 to fix up all our troubles?

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With "libata.dma=0".

Okay I'll somehow squeeze that onto the menu GUI.

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Would it be possible to add a Debug option to the installer

Yes, easily. I can just add it to my Debug menu item.

@Geri

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USB2.0 is another topic: I still puzzle how I can debug this.

Yes, on this PATA/SATA/USB2 combo card you have helped me get the SATA working, USB2 "should" be working but does not, and there is still hope for the PATA portion. Any thoughts you have on the PATA stuff ... let me know. We still do not know if anyone anywhere on this planet has gotten USB2 to work without problems on a micro A1. I have asked on the Hyperion forums and gotten no reply from anyone who has had success. This suggest to me that perhaps the problems encountered by the regular USB I/O are maybe magnified by the USB2 high speed I/O and need special code to work. wish I was a USB expert - I'd dive into this more. Right now its still smoke and mirrors to me.

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I guess you're using disk labels now so that you can easily move the harddisk(s) around!?

Nah...I'm cheating by using multiple entries in my linux kernel startup file.

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thus the primary IDE channel of the onboard IDE controller is never probed for an IDE device.

DOH! That's likely it! I'll check it out when I can pull my son off the Amiga - it is his favorite computer. Smart boy.

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Where is the harddrive connected on the onboard IDE controller?

Primary I believe. It is connected through a cable to the 3.5" IDE port on the motherboard (not the 2.5" laptop drive port).

I'll try uninstalling mixer and see what happens.

I'll let you know about removing the IDE noprobes.....

Thanks!

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@Geri

Okay, I took out the noprobes and of course my hde drive is there. I did the following:
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hde10 and waited about 2 hours, and sure enough, it finished copying my 9.7 Gig hda2 drive to my 11.4 Gig hde10 drive.
I had to reboot to get it to show all the data, but I rebooted and mounted hde10 and everything is there.
So, I wonder why the dd command failed when I tried it using the SATA drive? I did try it just as shown above..without the bs=4096, and it still locked up after 20 minutes or so. I can't imagine that the SATA driver has some sort of 4 Gig size limitation or anything like that?

Anyway, now I am ready to try to download Hypex's latest linux and try it out...I'll let you know how that goes.

Scott

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@Hypex

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Hypex wrote: @Geri Oh can you send me the initramfs modules for 2.6.32? Thanks. BTW, can these be extracted from a 2.6.32 boot initramfs?

Sure, but you can also extract it from the kernel package. I'll post the list of modules later.

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Well that is a start. But we need a middle and end as well.

True. At the moment it looks like any bigger data transfer over the PCI bus somehow brings down the northbridge. I planned to play a little bit with the PCI config of the onboard USB 1.1 controllers, just to see, if that makes a difference.

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Quote: After all it is an installer and not an automatic recovery program But what about rescure mode? Surely they would have included a base system check? Seems logical to me. Suppose they would need to extract persomal info entered and then unpack packages but pretend to install them and instead do a file or MD5 check.

I seriously doubt they implemented any automatic check or recovery of the base system. I only know the recovery mode as a way to manually fix the system, if it was screwed up somehow (for example the bootloader was overwritten by a Windows installation).

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It does when you can't crack the SLB code. Now where's that v3 to fix up all our troubles?

Out of sight!

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Okay I'll somehow squeeze that onto the menu GUI.

Thanks!

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Yes, easily. I can just add it to my Debug menu item.

Yes, please!

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@scabit

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scabit wrote: @Geri Quote: USB2.0 is another topic: I still puzzle how I can debug this. Yes, on this PATA/SATA/USB2 combo card you have helped me get the SATA working, USB2 "should" be working but does not, and there is still hope for the PATA portion. Any thoughts you have on the PATA stuff ... let me know.

Only the upgrade to Debian Squeeze and to a newer kernel. A backport of the newer driver version simply doesn't make sense.

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We still do not know if anyone anywhere on this planet has gotten USB2 to work without problems on a micro A1. I have asked on the Hyperion forums and gotten no reply from anyone who has had success. This suggest to me that perhaps the problems encountered by the regular USB I/O are maybe magnified by the USB2 high speed I/O and need special code to work. wish I was a USB expert - I'd dive into this more. Right now its still smoke and mirrors to me.

It is surely some PCI transfer problem. But it's hard to debug, if you cannot take a direct look at the PCI bus with something like a logic analyzer. And then the question is, if there is a workaround at all.

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Nah...I'm cheating by using multiple entries in my linux kernel startup file.

I can only advice you to use disk labels, as it makes your live a lot easier, if you have to swap disks around.

Maybe a wiki entry for all these tips and tricks would be a good idea.

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Quote: thus the primary IDE channel of the onboard IDE controller is never probed for an IDE device. DOH! That's likely it! I'll check it out when I can pull my son off the Amiga - it is his favorite computer. Smart boy.

Yeah, looks like he learned something from his father!

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scabit wrote: @Geri Okay, I took out the noprobes and of course my hde drive is there.

Good!

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I did the following: dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hde10 and waited about 2 hours, and sure enough, it finished copying my 9.7 Gig hda2 drive to my 11.4 Gig hde10 drive.

Note that you can resize the filesystem to the new partitions size.

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I had to reboot to get it to show all the data, but I rebooted and mounted hde10 and everything is there. So, I wonder why the dd command failed when I tried it using the SATA drive? I did try it just as shown above..without the bs=4096, and it still locked up after 20 minutes or so. I can't imagine that the SATA driver has some sort of 4 Gig size limitation or anything like that?

Good question! The SATA driver surely has no limitation. It could also be a DMA problem. Did we actually try out PIO mode for the SATA controller?

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Anyway, now I am ready to try to download Hypex's latest linux and try it out...I'll let you know how that goes.

Yes, please!

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@Hypex

Okay....started the install of Debian Squeeze using your installer and PPC CD-1.

My setup is as follows: micro A1 512M RAM, sii0680 controller with 160G primary hard drive (seen as hda), DVD/rw slave drive. Internally connected 80 gig IDE drive - connected to micro A1 motherboard as master - seen as hde.

I inserted your installer CD, booted and hit enter to select "boot from siiCD". It booted from your CD - wonderful job! I left all defaults - dma on, etc.
The install went well - started up, loaded the kernel...everything good. Was asked to swap the CD, put in the PPC CD-1 - it read it and started the hard drive setup. I selected hde10 - a 11.4 Gig partition for squeeze. Note - this previously had a backup of my Lenny install on it. I did not format it - perhaps I should have? I set it as root, bootable etc.
The installer continued and completed the base install! Hurray!
It then asked for a mirror - I pointed it to the USA debian mirror - it began installing software packages - great! It first downloaded 1097 files, took about an hour and a half, and then went through 54% on the install.

It locked up at "Preparing Gnome-disk-utility". It simply stayed there, no disk activity, and never came back. I had to do a hard reset (waited several minutes first).

I then tried to use the Rescue Squeezer to continue the install. I booted up (this time with nodma set true) and set hde10 as my root, and tried to tell it to install packages. It came back with a red screen o' death and said "Select and Install Software fails".

How do i proceed? i DO NOT want to download any more files - I have completely used up this months bandwidth limit on my wireless service. All files SHOULD be on my hard drive - it downloaded them all successfully after all.

Where do I go from here?

Thanks! This installer looks great by the way. You have done an excellent job.

Scott

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