Re: 2.4 Unable to boot on Cyrix box?

[Lionel Bouton]

Nathan wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have an old recycled box playing firewall for me which stubbornly 
> refuses to run 2.4.  2.2.17,18,19,20 and a handful of -pre* patches 
> have run just fine.
>
> The system just hangs after 2.4 prints out:
> SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 90320D2, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: CD-ROM CDU76E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 

- Did you try with ide=nodma ?
- I've not yet read the full specs of old SiS IDE chips, but there is a 
bug for ATA66 and 33 chips in the stock kernel. Try copying 
http://gyver.homeip.net/sis5513/sis5513-limited.c over your 
linux/drivers/ide/sis5513.c. It fixes the bug above and will output your 
IDE Config registers and each change it makes. Please send me the 
"SIS5513: " lines if you can (I'm interested in cases of failure and 
success).

>
> Relevant system specs:
> Cyrix 233MHz processor
> 64M PC-100 RAM (1 dimm)
> SIS5513 IDE chipset
>    LSPCI reports: 00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems 
> [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)

Do you have the motherboard model ?

>
>
> I have the kernel built for a 386, PCI and EISA support enabled (and 
> their respective PNP) all Y, SIS5513 support included in the kernel... 
> What am I missing, here?

Perhaps correct init code in sis5513.c for your chip. Send me all info 
requested above and I'll try to sort it out.

>
> More information available if needed.
>
The more you send me, the better.

LB.