Fedora 9 Boot Problem

Jack Lauman jlauman at nwcascades.com
Thu Oct 23 20:20:22 UTC 2008 

Here's the results of 'lspci -v'

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82f1
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: [c4] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
	Capabilities: [54] HyperTransport: UnitID Clumping
	Capabilities: [40] HyperTransport: Retry Mode
	Capabilities: [9c] HyperTransport: #1a
	Capabilities: [f8] HyperTransport: #1c

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 9602 (prog-if 
00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
	I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
	Memory behind bridge: fbd00000-fbefffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
	Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
	Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82f1
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge 
(PCIE port 2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
	Memory behind bridge: fbf00000-fbffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000faf00000-00000000faffffff
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
	Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 
Enable-
	Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82f1
	Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:11.0 RAID bus controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA 
Controller [Non-RAID5 mode]
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 22
	I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
	I/O ports at b000 [size=4]
	I/O ports at a000 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 9000 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 8000 [size=16]
	Memory at fbcff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/2 
Enable-
	Capabilities: [70] SATA HBA <?>
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci

00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	Memory at fbcfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	Memory at fbcfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI 
Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
	Memory at fbcff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [e4] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00e0
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
	Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
	Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
	Memory at fbcf7000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI 
Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
	Memory at fbcf6800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [e4] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00e0
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
	Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
	Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+
	Kernel modules: i2c-piix4

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller 
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
	I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
	I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]
	Capabilities: [70] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 
Enable-
	Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
	Kernel modules: ata_generic, pata_atiixp, pata_acpi

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge 
(prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64

00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82ef
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
	Memory at fbcf5000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
	Flags: fast devsel
	Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Address Map
	Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
DRAM Controller
	Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
	Flags: fast devsel
	Capabilities: [f0] Secure device <?>
	Kernel modules: k8temp

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 
Graphics (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82f1
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
	Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
	Memory at fbef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Memory at fbd00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 
Enable-

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82c6
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
	I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
	Memory at fbfff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at faff0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Expansion ROM at fbfc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 
Enable-
	Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
	Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=2
	Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data <?>
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169



Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 11:39 -0700, Jack Lauman wrote:
>> I've got an ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI motherboard with 2 Gb RAM & AMD 5600 X2 
>> proc.
>>
>> There are (2) Seagate ST350032NS (500 GB SATA drives) configure in the 
>> BIOS for a RAID1. The OS is RedHat Fedora 9.
>>
>> Following successful installation, it fails to boot. The grub boot 
>> loader displays correctly but immediately goes into POST and reboots as 
>> soon as the OS begins to load. There are no errors displayed.
>>
>> If I use the recovery CD, I can mount the sysimage and run yum update 
>> and install software successfully. I cannot get this machine to boot on 
>> it's own without following this procedure.
>>
>> Any assistance in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.
> ----
> BIOS Raid1 ?  on ASUS motherboard? sounds like fake raid and wouldn't be
> supported...at least not without some tacky vendor supplied driver.
> Perhaps you need to give us info on this BIOS RAID (lspci -v)
> 
> I suspect that you would find 'software' RAID much easier to install and
> get working and probably perform better too.
> 
> Craig
>

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