Re: dfly hangs about a minute on the boot up when it's trying to search after SATA disks.

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

daniel olsson wrote:

> Thank you Bill i will take a look at the page later today and see what i can 
> do.
Welcome!

Forgot to mention - do this first - it will require four to eight reboots:

1) Interrupt POST, enter BIOS, look for 'PNP/PCI Configuration' (or similar)
    set MB BIOS to 'PNP OS Installed: NO' or similar.

- reboot, tel DFLY to boot 'With ACPI Disabled (2)
   observe time-out on the SATA, , save dmesg to a
   file and add your comments as to the above
   settings and results.

 - Do the same with DFLY normal boot.

3) Change MB BIOS to 'PNP OS installed: YES'
     do two re-boots, as above ACPI-aware and not.

- If the SATA is on the MB, repeat with it enabled/disabled.

- If the SATA is add-on, try interrupting the Sil BIOS
   and see if it has more than one mode...

- If comparison of the above is still 'no joy',
   see if the MB has a 'boot other devices' setting
   that can be optioned off, and if that makes any difference.

Only then - if still 'no joy' will you have to look at
modifying the DragonFly device scan.

(Else live with the delay, or yank the Sil controller.)

 ;-)

HTH,

Bill



> "daniel olsson" <d.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:4236c2fe$0$718$415eb37d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > dfly hangs about a minute on the boot up when it's trying to recognise my 
> > SATA controller.But i have disabled my SiL 3112 SATA conroller in bios but 
> > it's searching anyway. i got a warning message after the acd0 on the boot 
> > up too. i have pasted a bit from my dmesg in here too.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > atapci1: <SiI 3112 SATA controller> port
> >
> > 0xac00-0xac0f,0xa800-0xa803,0xa400-0xa407,0xa000-0xa003,0x9c00-0x9c07
> >
> > mem 0xdc130000-0xdc1301ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci1
> >
> > ata2: at 0x9c00 on atapci1
> >
> > ata3: at 0xa400 on atapci1
> >
> >
> >
> > acd0: CD-RW <Memorex 24MAXX 1040> at ata1-master PIO4
> >
> > **WARNING** waiting for the following device to finish configuring:
> >
> > xpt: func=0xc0145c3c arg=0
> >
> > **WARNING** waiting for the following device to finish configuring:
> >
> > xpt: func=0xc0145c3c arg=0
> >
> > **WARNING** waiting for the following device to finish configuring:
> >
> > xpt: func=0xc0145c3c arg=0
> >
> > **WARNING** waiting for the following device to finish configuring:
> >
> > xpt: func=0xc0145c3c arg=0
> >
> > **WARNING** waiting for the following device to finish configuring:
> >
> > xpt: func=0xc0145c3c arg=0
> >
> > Giving up, interrupt routing is probably hosed
> >
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
> >
> > /Daniel