[LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri May 12 00:11:43 CEST 2006


* Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> [060506 15:11]:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:39:13PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > * Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> [060505 23:38]:
> > > I've tried this; the boot log is attached (minicom-20060505.cap) with
> > > DEBUG_PCI, DEBUG_IDE and DEBUG_LINUXBIOS enabled. Didn't help.
> > > 
> > > >  * if that doesnt help: try whether the disk is detected as hda instead
> > > >    of hde. This might happen with the current code.
> > > 
> > > I've tried that too, the bootlog is also attached (minicom-20060505-2.cap).
> > > Still no luck; though here it does seem to find the IDE controller. But not
> > > the drive...
> > 
> > Aha! It shows a floating IDE bus... Does anyone have an idea what's
> > wrong exactly if this shows up? It might just be an issue of waiting
> > just a little bit longer..

Hm. can you set the timeout from 20ms to 200ms?

Does it work with the etherboot filo btw?

Stefan


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