(no subject)

["sting sting" <zstingx hotmail com>]

Hello ,
I tried the adding the options to grub.conf
ide=nodma
noapic
apm=off

the same occurred again : I do succeed to boot from diskette (I do not get
the former DMA errors messages, probably because now dma is enabled), but 
when booting from
disk I fail,  and get an error (system disk error );
can anybody give advice?


regards,

sting

0 wrote:

There are plenty of serial offenders that could be causing boot failure. 
Possibly looks like your DMA isn't working. If you can actually boot with 
the floppy, try adding configuring boot options in your grub.conf. You put 
the options at the end of the kernel line.

A list of some boot options can be found here:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-bootopts.html

The usual suspects to try are:

ide=nodma
noapic
apm=off


You can try them seperately to diagnose the problem. Could be caused by any 
of these. If that doesn't work ask Rick...

Stu C

sting sting wrote:

   Hello ,

   I had installed RH9 on a new Pentium-4 machine(2.4Ghz) and with a new 
Maxtor disk
   ;I have P4 Titan Series Motherboard (12ME-8SIMLHP-3201)

   I choose to use the default GRUB loader;

now , when I boot ,  get "syste disk error " ; but I can boot
from a floppy;
During booting from the floppy , there appears some dma errors
on screen but the boot process completes OK.
I get dma errors like :


   dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
   kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
DataRequest }


   below is a snapshot of my kernel messages (from /var/log/messages)

   Does anybody know what the problem can be ?


   the errors I get are:
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: Partition check:
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda:<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 
0x21
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not 
waiting
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete DataRequest }
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel:
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda1 hda2 hda3
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
   Sep 23 09:35:03 RAM sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:03 RAM network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:03 RAM logger: punching nameserver 194.90.1.5 through the 
firewall
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not 
waiting
   Sep 23 09:35:03 RAM network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete DataRequest }
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel:
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, 
MD_SB_DISKS=27
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: md: autorun ...
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 
buckets, 32Kbytes
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 
32768 bind 65536)
   Sep 23 09:35:07 RAM kernel: Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux 
NET4.0.
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAMkernel: Freeing initrd memory: 147k freed
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not 
waiting
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM apmd[2680]: Charge: * * * (-1% unknown)
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete DataRequest }
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel:
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not 
waiting
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete DataRequest }
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel:
   Sep 23 09:35:08 RAM kernel: hda: drive not ready for command

regards,
sting

_________________________________________________________________
The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*  
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail