[plug] Laptop freezes under 2.4 kernel bootup

[Andrew Furey]

Hi all,

A colleague has just bought himself a new laptop (an
ITC Centris somethingorother) which we're setting up
Debian dualboot on. We're having trouble getting a 2.4
kernel installed (works OK with the dist-default
2.2.17). During bootup, it gets as far as:


Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes;
override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
PIIX4: chipset revision 5
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1440-0x1447, BIOS settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1448-0x144f, BIOS settings:
hdc:DMA, hdd:pio


... and then just sits there (I've left it for 5
minutes or so). The equivalent section on the 2.2
version continues with:


hda: TOSHIBA MK3018GAS, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24081, ATAPI CDROM drive
etc etc.


Presumably there's something about either the disk or
the controller that it's not liking. I've seen it
booted in Knoppix (which I presume has 2.4) but I
didn't see the bootup messages so I can't tell you
anything in that regard.

lspci (under 2.2) says:


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale)
Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale)
Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
Chipset PCI (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
Chipset ISA Bridge (ICH2) (rev 05)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino
2) Chipset IDE U100 (rev 05)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino
2) Chipset USB (Hub A) (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
Chipset SMBus (rev 05)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino
2) Chipset USB (Hub B) (rev 05)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82820
820 (Camino 2) Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
Chipset AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
Inc: Unknown device 4c66 (rev 01)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev b8)
02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown
device 0551


Also (if it's any help), LILO's loading of the kernel
seems to take a while on both setups, but that's
probably related to it being on hda3, and also running
after boot.ini on XP. Bleh.

Any ideas?

Andrew

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