Hi Kevin,
On 04.07.2008 20:59, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
Hi Carl-Daniel,
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:08PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 04.07.2008 08:40, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
I don't see anything unusual in the log. Did all the OSes die in the same way? Did anything come up on the vga screen? What OSes did you try?
I found the various "await_ide: ERROR" and "fail floppy_13XX" messages interesting. In another mail you said you're not sure the floppy support works with real hardware. Could that be one of the reasons for the problems Myles is seeing?
I did notice the "await_ide: ERROR", but the cdrom code was written to handle errors during ata_detect_medium (I guess real drives do that?). The cdrom did eventually return a valid looking sector count and size, so it doesn't look wrong to me.
Myles stated that he had CONFIG_FLOPPY_SUPPORT disabled. If so, I don't see it causing a problem as the code wouldn't even be included. The "fail floppy_13XX" messages would be normal if the code isn't compiled in - every floppy bios call would return a failure status.
Hmmm. I do believe you. I'd be interested in what a proprietary BIOS does when no floppy is present and when floppy support is disabled. IIRC there is a BIOS call listing the number of floppies which never fails.
Regards, Carl-Daniel