CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK should be enabled

Bug #9472 reported by Nicolai Teglskov
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Herbert Xu

Bug Description

I have tried to install Ubuntu on my Pentium III 1.000 MHz with 256 MD DDR RAM. The computer is currently running
Debian.

I can't install Ubuntu. I have downloaded the warty-release-install-i386.iso and checked the MD5SUM. I have even
tried burning it to times and tried disabling some om my harddiscs.

I have tried to descibe the problem like this:
First I select language, location and keymap.. Then my computer hangs. At this point it says:
User.notice.hw-detect: Missing modules ’agpgart, 8139too, ide-mod, ide-probe-mod, ide-detect, ide-floppy

After about 45 seconds it writes a lot. The end of it is something like this:
A call trace with a lot of text that absolutely makes no sense to me. For example (the last line):
”[<c030864d>] start_kernel+0x193/0x197”

The last three lines on my monitor is:
”Code: 0f 0b eb 03 e1 0d 8e d0 89 0a 89 82 e4 00 00 00 a1 91 28
<0>Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
In interrupt handler – not syncing”

I hope this get fixed. I am looking forward to be running Ubuntu on my server.

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Nicolai Teglskov (teglskov) wrote :

Here is the complete call trace:
”Call Trace:
[<d0986f70>] cdrom_start_read_continuation+0x0/0xb0 [ide_cd]
[<d09869d3>] cdrom_start_packet_command+0x11a/0x140 [ide_cd]
[<d0986f70>] cdrom_start_read_continuation+0x0/0xb0 [ide_cd]
[<d0986868>] cdrom_timer_expiry+0x0/0x51 [ide_cd]
[<d098728b>] cdrom_start_read+0xb9/0xc6 [ide_cd]
[<d0986f70>] cdrom_start_read_continuation+0x0/0xb0 [ide_cd]
[<d0987e7d>] ide_do_rw_cdrom+0xe3/0x161 [ide_cd]
[<d08d72f1>] start_request+0x19d/0x1c1 [ide_core]
[<d08d75ca>] ide_do_request+0x294/0x2d3 [ide_core]
[<d08d787d>] ide_timer_expiry+0x19e/0x1ca [ide_core]
[<d08d76df>] ide_timer_expiry+0x0/0x1ca [ide_core]
[<c011f419>] run_timer_softirq+0x13a/0x173
[<c011c0e4>] __do_softirq+0x34/0x73
[<c011c145>] do_softirq+0x22/0x26
[<c0107ef5>] do_IRQ+0xe5/0xf9
[<c0106980>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
[<d082c23b>] acpi_processor_idle+0xd2/0x1c1 [processor]
[<c010408e>] cpu_idle+0x1d/0x32
[<c030864d>] start_kernel+0x193/0x197”

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

(deleted pastebin URL as it seems to be empty)

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Herbert Xu (herbert-gondor) wrote :

The mistake that I made in -16 which caused MSI to be turned on also caused
CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK to be turned off. So please try disabling DMA on the CD
device firts. You can do this by switching to the 2nd console ASAP after the
system has booted off the CD. Once there you should do

echo using_dma:0 > /proc/ide/hdX/settings

Replace hdX with whatever device your CD happens to be on. Double-check whether
that worked by doing

cat /proc/ide/hdX/settings

and verifying that using_dma is 0. You can then switch back to the first
console and continue the installation.

If this doesn't help, and assuming that the CD device does work in Debian, then
please attach the /var/log/dmesg file when you're under Debian. Thanks.

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Nicolai Teglskov (teglskov) wrote :

Thank you Herbert!

I'm going through the installation progress right now. I did this:
typed
"echo using_dma:0 > /proc/ide/hdX/settings"
and checked that it was corrected..

Thanks a lot mate!

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Herbert Xu (herbert-gondor) wrote :

Great, all we need to do now is to turn IDEDMA_ONLYDISK on again. Thanks.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

*** Bug 8791 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

*** Bug 9806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

linux-source-2.6.8.1 (2.6.8.1-17) hoary; urgency=low

  * Revert pre-Warty regressions
  * [debian/config/i386/*] Disable CONFIG_PCI_MSI, enable
    CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK

 -- Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden> Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:16:09 -0800

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