Ubuntu 8.04 SLS will not load ide-generic module on boot

[Gerardo Lisboa]

I have succesflly made a new installation of Ubuntu 5.04, followed by a successfull transition to 6.06 SLS and 8.04 SLS.

However, the last installation, using kernel image 2.6.24.-23-386 will not boot succesfully and stops on "waiting for root disks" and landing on the initramfs shell.

The problem is, although the ide-generic modules are present, they are not loaded.

This machine is a old (1998) Toshiba laptop 320CDS.
uname -a: Linux machinename 2.6.24-23-386 #1 Sun Jan 25 23:32:00 UTC 2009 i586 GNU/Linux
cat /proc/version_signature: Ubuntu 2.6.24-23.48-386

I can resume booting executing on the shell:
modprobe ide-generic
^D

sudo lspci -vnvn:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge [1179:0601] (rev a0)
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Satellite Pro [1179:0001]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes

00:04.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro [102c:00e5] (rev c6) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Satellite Pro [1179:0001]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=256K]

00:0b.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems USB [1179:0001]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 64 (250ns min, 5250ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:11.0 Communication controller [0780]: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port [1179:0701] (rev 21)
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device [1179:0001]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 64
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: I/O ports at ffe0 [size=32]

00:13.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 [1179:060a] (rev 07)
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Satellite Pro [1179:0001]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at 20040000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
 Memory window 0: 10000000-13fff000 (prefetchable)
 Memory window 1: 14000000-17fff000
 I/O window 0: 00001000-000010ff
 I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+ PostWrite+
 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:13.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 [1179:060a] (rev 07)
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Satellite Pro [1179:0001]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at 20041000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
 Memory window 0: 18000000-1bfff000 (prefetchable)
 Memory window 1: 1c000000-1ffff000
 I/O window 0: 00001c00-00001cff
 I/O window 1: 00002000-000020ff
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+
 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
 Subsystem: Abocom Systems Inc EtherFast 10/100 Cardbus (PCMPC200) [13d1:ab01]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 64 (5000ns min, 10000ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=128]
 Region 1: Memory at 1c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
 Expansion ROM at 18000000 [disabled] [size=256K]

sudo dmesg
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-23-386 (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 Sun Jan 25 23:32:00 UTC 2009 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-23.48-386)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000006010000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000006010000 - 0000000006020000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000006020000 - 0000000006040000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fef80000 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 00000000fffe6e00 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe6e00 - 00000000fffe7000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 96MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 24592) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 24592
[ 0.000000] HighMem 24592 -> 24592
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 24592
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 24592
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 160 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 20336 pages, LIFO batch:3
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI not present or invalid.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F4850 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F4850, 0014 (r0 TOSHIB)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 06010000, 0028 (r1 TOSHIB 750 19980225 TASM 4010000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 06010054, 0074 (r1 TOSHIB 750 19980225 TASM 4010000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 060100C8, 489F (r1 TOSHIB 300 19990601 MSFT 100000B)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS FFFE6E00, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 06040000:f8f40000)
[ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
[ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
[ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 24400
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=7405231c-b4bd-4127-a597-26366c04fe8d ro bootkbd=pt-latin1 noquiet
[ 0.000000] No local APIC present or hardware disabled
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (010ca000)
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 233.292 MHz processor.
[ 10.837580] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 10.837616] console [tty0] enabled
[ 10.841471] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 10.843107] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 10.869517] Memory: 85184k/98368k available (2081k kernel code, 12736k reserved, 975k data, 364k init, 0k highmem)
[ 10.869737] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 10.869750] fixmap : 0xfffa6000 - 0xfffff000 ( 356 kB)
[ 10.869770] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 10.869789] vmalloc : 0xc7000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 903 MB)
[ 10.869807] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc6010000 ( 96 MB)
[ 10.869826] .init : 0xc0400000 - 0xc045b000 ( 364 kB)
[ 10.869845] .data : 0xc0308428 - 0xc03fc3a4 ( 975 kB)
[ 10.869864] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0308428 (2081 kB)
[ 10.870399] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 10.870927] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 10.951102] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 467.48 BogoMIPS (lpj=934976)
[ 10.951507] Security Framework initialized
[ 10.951629] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 10.951834] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[ 10.951938] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 10.952083] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 10.953429] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[ 10.953541] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 10.953671] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 10.953743] Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
[ 10.953835]
[ 10.953903] CPU: After all inits, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 10.954030] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 10.954202] CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
[ 10.954382] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 10.978531] Freeing SMP alternatives: 0k freed
[ 10.979739] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 16.270308] net_namespace: 64 bytes
[ 16.270436] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 16.275032] Time: 9:40:37 Date: 01/29/09
[ 16.275478] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 16.279112] EISA bus registered
[ 16.283110] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd4ce, last bus=21
[ 16.283224] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 16.283317] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 16.296630] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 16.296734] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 16.297322] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 16.297418] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 16.297724] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f8e30
[ 16.297831] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x9091, dseg 0x0
[ 16.431101] PnPBIOS: 17 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 17 recorded by driver
[ 16.435229] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 16.435334] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 16.454995] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 16.455102] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 16.456070] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[ 16.456734] system 00:01: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[ 16.456867] system 00:01: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[ 16.456978] system 00:01: iomem range 0x100000-0x600ffff could not be reserved
[ 16.457115] system 00:01: iomem range 0x6010000-0x603ffff could not be reserved
[ 16.457259] system 00:01: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
[ 16.457395] system 00:01: iomem range 0xfef80000-0xfeffffff could not be reserved
[ 16.457594] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x1882-0x1885 has been reserved
[ 16.457710] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x1888-0x188d has been reserved
[ 16.457819] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x18a0-0x18af has been reserved
[ 16.457927] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x18b0-0x18bf has been reserved
[ 16.458035] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x18c0-0x18cf has been reserved
[ 16.458143] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
[ 16.458253] system 00:0a: ioport range 0xcf8-0xcff could not be reserved
[ 16.458365] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 16.458473] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x100-0x107 has been reserved
[ 16.458582] system 00:0a: ioport range 0x10e-0x10e has been reserved
[ 16.458882] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 16.465443] PCI: Bus 1, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:13.0
[ 16.465558] IO window: 00001000-000010ff
[ 16.465646] IO window: 00001400-000014ff
[ 16.465739] PREFETCH window: 10000000-13ffffff
[ 16.465831] MEM window: 14000000-17ffffff
[ 16.465919] PCI: Bus 5, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:13.1
[ 16.466010] IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
[ 16.466100] IO window: 00002000-000020ff
[ 16.466188] PREFETCH window: 18000000-1bffffff
[ 16.466279] MEM window: 1c000000-1fffffff
[ 16.466381] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:13.0 (0000 -> 0003)
[ 16.466500] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:13.0 to 64
[ 16.466537] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:13.1 (0000 -> 0003)
[ 16.466647] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:13.1 to 64
[ 16.466753] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 16.499476] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 16.501525] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 16.502162] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 16.502526] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 16.502632] TCP reno registered
[ 16.512068] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 26.695848] Freeing initrd memory: 7968k freed
[ 26.701932] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 26.702128] audit(1233222046.777:1): initialized
[ 26.730889] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 26.731245] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 26.733583] io scheduler noop registered
[ 26.733685] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 26.733767] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 26.733983] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 26.734137] Boot video device is 0000:00:04.0
[ 26.749442] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 27.103018] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 27.639374] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 27.640303] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 27.647718] 00:0e: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 27.659658] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 27.660696] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[ 27.662181] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 27.669663] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 27.669798] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 27.687496] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 27.689328] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 27.689460] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 27.689566] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
[ 27.689740] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 27.689821] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 27.691671] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 27.692017] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[ 27.692346] registered taskstats version 1
[ 27.692865] Magic number: 9:234:678
[ 27.693583] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 27.693676] EDD information not available.
[ 27.699905] Freeing unused kernel memory: 364k freed
[ 27.700309] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 787k
[ 27.721420] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[ 30.007351] fuse init (API version 7.9)
[ 30.336243] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
[ 30.539014] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 30.539857] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.12.0-ioctl (2007-10-02) initialised: <email address hidden>
[ 30.776506] md: linear personality registered for level -1
[ 30.840125] md: multipath personality registered for level -4
[ 30.900548] md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
[ 30.972779] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
[ 31.036228] xor: measuring software checksum speed
[ 31.054281] 8regs : 257.000 MB/sec
[ 31.074289] 8regs_prefetch: 217.000 MB/sec
[ 31.094285] 32regs : 208.000 MB/sec
[ 31.114284] 32regs_prefetch: 186.000 MB/sec
[ 31.134279] pII_mmx : 390.000 MB/sec
[ 31.154278] p5_mmx : 480.000 MB/sec
[ 31.154374] xor: using function: p5_mmx (480.000 MB/sec)
[ 31.163489] async_tx: api initialized (async)
[ 31.275135] raid6: int32x1 26 MB/s
[ 31.343908] raid6: int32x2 37 MB/s
[ 31.410697] raid6: int32x4 40 MB/s
[ 31.479500] raid6: int32x8 35 MB/s
[ 31.546499] raid6: mmxx1 76 MB/s
[ 31.614837] raid6: mmxx2 101 MB/s
[ 31.614930] raid6: using algorithm mmxx2 (101 MB/s)
[ 31.615026] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
[ 31.615113] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
[ 31.615199] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
[ 31.945427] md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
[ 36.550911] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 36.551322] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 36.606512] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 36.747996] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 36.748383] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: OHCI Host Controller
[ 36.750001] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 36.750391] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: irq 11, io mem 0xfcfff000
[ 37.376703] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 37.395745] FDC 0 is an 8272A
[ 38.891090] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 38.891554] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 38.891765] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

ISSUED modprobe ide-generic here

[ 390.711710] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 390.711872] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 390.712729] ide0: generic PnP IDE interface
[ 390.712900] ide1: generic PnP IDE interface
[ 390.716213] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 391.675549] hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-30, ATA DISK drive
[ 391.675866] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 393.083580] hdc: CD-220EA, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 393.084125] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 393.084577] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[ 393.223720] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[ 395.242723] hda: 58605120 sectors (30005 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
[ 395.243336] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 395.243721] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
[ 395.400346] hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
[ 395.400604] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

EXIT SHELL here

[ 469.126143] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 469.126378] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 509.107828] irda_init()
[ 509.108006] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[ 509.125695] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
[ 509.165515] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:13.0 [1179:0001]
[ 509.295622] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
[ 509.295760] Socket status: 30000007
[ 509.380451] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:13.1 [1179:0001]
[ 509.507644] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
[ 509.507782] Socket status: 30000020
[ 509.586736] IrDA: Registered device irda0
[ 509.586854] toshoboe: Using multiple tasks, version $Id: donauboe.c V2.18 ven jan 10 03:14:16 2003$
[ 509.690766] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 510.056290] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input3
[ 510.226660] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1
[ 517.425643] parport_pc 00:10: reported by Plug and Play BIOS
[ 517.425876] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 528.852301] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f
[ 528.854926] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[ 528.859193] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f
[ 528.861694] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[ 528.867382] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[ 528.870183] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[ 531.107641] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15 (Feb 27, 2007)
[ 531.108383] PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
[ 531.108695] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
[ 531.138407] tulip0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
[ 531.138514] tulip0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
[ 531.147953] tulip0: MII transceiver #0 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
[ 531.255701] eth0: Digital DS21142/43 Tulip rev 65 at Port 0x1c00, 00:e0:98:23:05:7c, IRQ 11.
[ 532.974486] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 533.714901] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 534.400593] 0000:05:00.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xf0660000 CSR6 0xb20e2202)
[ 534.400654] eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#0 link partner capability of c1e1.
[ 534.654922] Adding 124952k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:124952k
[ 536.838937] EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
[ 541.475698] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 541.476821] EXT3 FS on hda9, internal journal
[ 541.476872] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 541.511988] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 541.513248] EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal
[ 541.513345] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 541.603126] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 541.604504] EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
[ 541.604554] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 544.379004] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 554.879348] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 554.884108] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 565.632284] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

SYSTEM OK HERE

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Gerardo,

Can you test the even more recent Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release and confirm if this issue remains? Additionally, there is an even newer pre-release of Jaunty 9.04 (currently Alpha3) - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/ . It contains a newer 2.6.28 based kernel. Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Gerardo Lisboa (gvlx)]

Hi,

Will check.

On travel until 9th feb.

Will try base and alternate then.

The 8.10 cd did not boot but I did not tried with full log (noquiet verbose
settings in the kernel boot).

Checking the depmode.d directory, the only mention of ide devices is for
block devices by number.
As the root device is specified by UUID doesn't this mean no effort will be
made to load generic-ide by default?

Atenciosamente,
Gerardo V. Lisboa

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> Hi Gerardo,
>
> Can you test the even more recent Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release and confirm
> if this issue remains? Additionally, there is an even newer pre-release
> of Jaunty 9.04 (currently Alpha3) -
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/ . It contains a newer 2.6.28
> based kernel. Please let us know your results. Thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Ubuntu 8.04 SLS will not load ide-generic module on boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322680
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I have succesflly made a new installation of Ubuntu 5.04, followed by a
> successfull transition to 6.06 SLS and 8.04 SLS.
>
> However, the last installation, using kernel image 2.6.24.-23-386 will not
> boot succesfully and stops on "waiting for root disks" and landing on the
> initramfs shell.
>
> The problem is, although the ide-generic modules are present, they are not
> loaded.
>
> This machine is a old (1998) Toshiba laptop 320CDS.
> uname -a: Linux machinename 2.6.24-23-386 #1 Sun Jan 25 23:32:00 UTC 2009
> i586 GNU/Linux
> cat /proc/version_signature: Ubuntu 2.6.24-23.48-386
>
>
> I can resume booting executing on the shell:
> modprobe ide-generic
> ^D
>
>
>
> sudo lspci -vnvn:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge
> [1179:0601] (rev a0)
> Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Satellite Pro [1179:0001]
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>
> 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Chips and Technologies F65555
> HiQVPro [102c:00e5] (rev c6) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Satellite Pro [1179:0001]
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- Spe...

[gmck (gmck)]

Hi,

I can confirm this bug in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on a Toshiba Satellite 300CDS. I had the same behaviour described above: the boot process for kernel image 2.6.24.-23-386 drops into an initramfs shell because the root partition can't be mounted. This initramfs shell is missing all hdd devices such as /dev/hdax or /dev/sdax.

After reading this bug, I could fix the problem by:

1) Adding "ide-generic" and "ide-disk" to /etc/modules

2) Adding ""ide-generic" and "ide-disk" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

3) Regenerating the initramfs image by using the commands:
            update-initramfs -d -k 2.6.24-23-generic
            update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.24-23-generic
    (it may be more correct to use the "-u" option but I wanted to be sure that the old image was really gone.)

4) Reboot

[Gerardo Lisboa (gvlx)]

Hello,

Although I had not written, those were exactly the steps I made to fix the problem.

I am now testing the latest 9.04 beta to see if it already works.

From what I read, the Toshiba IDE controller is somewhat specific so some applications do not capture the correct ide settings, including drive geometry.

Later on the day I'll post my findings on this beta.

[Gerardo Lisboa (gvlx)]

Findings from 9.04:

Beta 1 boots with acpi=force (no DMI BIOS year) - no other option needed (but this option is not available on the 'F6' list).

X installer does not run (detects the C&T 65555 chip but fails on "No devices found" - it warns it is not finding the keyboard and mouse either)

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Just want to try to keep this report up to date. Care to test and confirm this issue remains with the latest development release of Ubuntu (ie Karmic). ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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