by Hi,
after several days of trying to fix everything myself, I am getting a bit
desperate, since I still do not understand what is going wrong. I hope,
somebody can help me out. I checked all the FAQ's etc.
My system is a P60 with 8MB, Trident9440AGI videocard, 540 MB ide hd
floppydrive, Mitsumi atapi ide cdrom, MediaExpert soundcard on irq5
Suprafax 14k4 modem
I have a kernel v1.1.89 with drivers properly installed for atapi ide cdroms
and iso9660 filesystem. I did not include drivers for soundcards. My system
starts up using lilo on the harddisk. I use the Linux-distribution from the
Slackware 2.1 distribution.
In my fstab file I define all disks properly( at least I think so)
/dev/hda1 msdos /os2 defaults
/dev/hda2 ex2 / defaults
/dev/hdb iso9660 /var/adm/mount ro
/dev/fd0 ext2 /floppy defaults
All directories mentioned exist!
PROBLEM 1
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First of all after starting up, I get the listing at the end of this mail,
where as you can see some things do not seem to work properly:
the cdrom and floppydrive are not mounted. An error message is issued.
In fact I cannot mount /dev/fd0 . If I type
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy
with a floppy with ext2 filesystem on it. It replies
/dev/fd0 is not a mounting point
??? What goes wrong ???
If I do a raw write using dd onto /dev/fd0 everything works fine?!
PROBLEM 2
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On startup my modem is on and I can see it is communicating with
the computer(lights flash on etc.) It seems to be recognized and
then it hangs. I cannot get thru to the modem. I checked with
setserial /dev/cua0 what could be wrong and it all seems to be oke.
irq=4, UART=16650A etc...
I didn't tinker with the rc.serial file in /etc/rc.d
I tried to find out if some other process locked out the irq4.
But I couldn't find anything.
Is there something I should set??
What could I try to pinpoint the source of all this trouble?
How could I solve it?
Thanx, Jiri
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ?? what goes wrong here>> kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x340 iso_blknum 16 ?? what goes wrong here>> kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 0200, sector 0
syslogd: restart
kernel: Kernel logging (proc) started.
kernel: Console: colour EGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
kernel: bios32_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f0120
kernel: bios32_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf145c
kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1440
kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
kernel: Unknown PCI device. PCI Vendor id=18. PCI Device id=9440.
kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 24.13 BogoMips
kernel: Serial driver version 4.00 with no serial options enabled
kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
kernel: Memory: 7172k/8192k available (492k kernel code, 384k reserved, 144k data)
kernel: This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.019
kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
kernel: Partition check:
kernel: hda: ST3660A, 520MB w/120KB Cache, CHS=1024/16/63, MaxMult=16
kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kernel: Adding Swap: 16124k swap-space
kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/0
login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/0
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 0200, sector 18
last message repeated 15 times
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 0200, sector 18
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 0200, sector 38
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 0200, sector 58
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 0200, sector 18
last message repeated 4 times
last message repeated 3 times
last message repeated 3 times
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 0200, sector 18
last message repeated 19 times