[Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32-bit] SiS 6326 AGP graphics on a mainboard with Intel 815E chipset will not boot from a hard drive, but is okay with DVD boot

[fpgahardwareengineer]

Hi,

I will like to report that when I try to boot Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32-bit from a hard drive on a system with Diamond Multimedia Speedstar A50 (SiS 6326 AGP 8MB SDRAM, AGP 3.3V) graphics card and Intel D815EAA2 mainboard (Intel 815E chipset), the system will crash during boot in a few seconds.
Floppy disk drive indicator light goes on and stays on.
I won't even see the Ubuntu graphical logo on the screen.
However, if I boot Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32-bit from a DVD, then it will boot fine.
I also happened to own a PCI version of SiS 6326 AGP graphics card called Palit AGP6326 graphics card (SiS 6326 AGP, PCI card, 4 MB FPM or EDO DRAM).
This card will boot fine with either DVD boot or hard drive boot.
Based on these results, I suspect there is a bug in either Intel AGP GART device driver or Intel PATA device driver for ICH2 southbridge.

System Configuration 1:

- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32-bit
  * All updates issued as of 10/15/2012 have been applied.
- Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
- Intel D815EEA2 mainboard
  * BIOS Version P21-0039 (last BIOS release)
  * Power -> ACPI -> ACPI: S3 State
  * Power -> ACPI -> Video RePOST: Off
- 512 MB PC133 SDRAM
  * 256 MB module
  * 128 MB module
  * 128 MB module
- Diamond Multimedia Speedstar A50 graphics card
  * SiS 6236 AGP
  * Chip Revision H0
  * 3.3V AGP card
  * 8 MB SDRAM
  * VGA BIOS Version 1.22a
- Gateway EV700 17 inch VGA monitor
- Seagate ST320414A 20 GB PATA hard drive
- Pioneer DVR-105 PATA DVD-RW drive
- Toshiba XM-6402B PATA CD-ROM drive
- PS/2 keyboard
- PS/2 mouse

System Configuration 2:

- Palit 6326AGP graphics card
  * SiS 6236 AGP
  * Chip Revision H0
  * 5V PCI card
  * 4 MB FPM or EDO DRAM
  * VGA BIOS Version 1.28q
- Other than the graphics card, the system configuration is identical to System Configuration 1.

Note that if I am correct, there are SiS 6326/6326 AGP/6326 DVD.
Both of the graphics card had a SiS 6326 AGP chip even though one of them was a PCI card.

Regards,

fpgahardwareengineer

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-38.83-generic 2.6.32.52+drm33.21
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-38-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 78.752480] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
 [ 84.400056] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Mon Oct 15 19:14:14 2012
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20120214.2)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
dmi.bios.date: 11/06/2002
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: EA81520A.86A.0039.P21.0211061753
dmi.board.name: D815EEA2
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAA45156-206
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrEA81520A.86A.0039.P21.0211061753:bd11/06/2002:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD815EEA2:rvrAAA45156-206:cvn:ct2:cvr:
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-38-generic

[penalvch (penalvch)]

fpgahardwareengineer, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please provide the information following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ?

As well, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Please do not test the kernel in the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
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