From: Earle Nietzel <earle.nietzel@rhinobox.org>
To: David Boulware <dgboulware@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dell PCI startup problem
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:29:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426ECECE.4030208@rhinobox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050426032510.GA854@attbi.com>
David Boulware wrote:
>Dear whomever,
>
>I have attached the kern.log from my attempt to install Debian Linux,
>kernel 2.4.17 on a Dell Dimension 4700 which has an integrated PCI bus.
>The installation fails in that the PCI devices are not found, the
>kern.log file which is attached contains the following message:
>
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel:
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: IO APIC #8......
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: .... register #00: 08000000
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: ....... : physical APIC id: 08
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: .... register #01: 00170020
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: ....... : PRQ implemented: 0
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: ....... : IO APIC version: 0020
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: .... register #02: 00170020
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: ....... : arbitration: 00
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
>
>
This message does not indicate that there is any problem, it is merely
informational.
You can find more information about this at:
http://www.rhinobox.org/linux/IOAPIC.html
>In addition, the following errors are produced repeatedly (~ 1 per
>second):
>
>Apr 24 12:50:32 churchill kernel: ide2: unexpected interrupt, status=0xd0, count= 79
>
>
>
Now this message is definitely a problem. You can also see this kernel
message:
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=266f
Which I would guess is at the root of the problem. Maybe you should try
a 2.6.x kernel since it does contain newer hardware drivers than a 2.4.x
kernel.
>I presume that there is some parameter that needs to be set in the kernel
>build, but I have not been able to figure it out. The kernel in the
>Debian distribution, 2.4.18, has the same problem. The log file is from
>the Debian distribution.
>
>
>
Well you must know what IDE controller you have in order to select it in
the kernel configuration. Usually most of the ide controllers are added
to the kernel since it is a very common device on many PC's. The command
"lspci -vv" would also try to identify PCI hardware.
>Thank you very much,
>
>David Boulware
>
regards,
Earle
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2005-04-26 3:25 Dell PCI startup problem David Boulware
2005-04-26 3:27 ` David Boulware
2005-04-26 23:29 ` Earle Nietzel [this message]
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