HELP! pc can't find primary master
What i did was:
-installed xfce for FreeBSD 5.3 -logged out -tried to login via kdm, but computer crashed -restarted (hardware reset) While BIOS is loading it can't find Primary Master and asks me for boot diskette. Inside BIOS i can see only my second primary slave HD. As primary master i can see nothing (i have left it set to "auto"). I am no using a LiveCD, which i think cannot find both HD's. I think "dmesg" has a strange output. Any ideas? Please help.:cry: ------------------------------------------ 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fffc000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000002fffc000 - 000000002ffff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000002ffff000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 767MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 196604 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 192508 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f5d60 ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x2fffc000 ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x2fffc0b2 ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x2fffc030 ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x2fffc058 ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0]) IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2 IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 0, address 0xfec00000, IRQ 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl edge) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 20 low level) Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=el apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1400.064 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2791.83 BogoMIPS Memory: 773432k/786416k available (1371k kernel code, 12596k reserved, 561k data, 140k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 CPU0: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1600+ stepping 02 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.32 usecs. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Error: only one processor found. ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1400.1539 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 266.6960 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 2666960, slice: 1333480 CPU0<T0:2666960,T1:1333472,D:8,S:1333480,C:2666960> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf18c0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] PCI: Probing PCI hardware IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (2-23 -> 0xb1 -> IRQ 23 Mode:1 Active:1) 00:00:02[A] -> 2-23 -> IRQ 23 IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (2-17 -> 0xb9 -> IRQ 17 Mode:1 Active:1) 00:00:02[B] -> 2-17 -> IRQ 17 IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (2-18 -> 0xc1 -> IRQ 18 Mode:1 Active:1) 00:00:02[C] -> 2-18 -> IRQ 18 IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (2-19 -> 0xc9 -> IRQ 19 Mode:1 Active:1) 00:00:02[D] -> 2-19 -> IRQ 19 IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (2-16 -> 0xd1 -> IRQ 16 Mode:1 Active:1) 00:00:08[A] -> 2-16 -> IRQ 16 IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (2-22 -> 0xd9 -> IRQ 22 Mode:1 Active:1) 00:00:04[A] -> 2-22 -> IRQ 22 number of MP IRQ sources: 16. number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #2...... .... register #00: 02000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 02 ....... : Delivery Type: 0 ....... : LTS : 0 .... register #01: 00178000 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : PRQ implemented: 1 ....... : IO APIC version: 0000 An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than three months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org .... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71 0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79 0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89 0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1 10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1 11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9 12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1 13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9 14 001 01 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9 17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1 IRQ to pin mappings: IRQ0 -> 0:2 IRQ1 -> 0:1 IRQ3 -> 0:3 IRQ4 -> 0:4 IRQ5 -> 0:5 IRQ6 -> 0:6 IRQ7 -> 0:7 IRQ8 -> 0:8 IRQ9 -> 0:9 IRQ10 -> 0:10 IRQ11 -> 0:11 IRQ12 -> 0:12 IRQ13 -> 0:13 IRQ14 -> 0:14 IRQ15 -> 0:15 IRQ16 -> 0:16 IRQ17 -> 0:17 IRQ18 -> 0:18 IRQ19 -> 0:19 IRQ20 -> 0:20 IRQ22 -> 0:22 IRQ23 -> 0:23 .................................... done. PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xf0816000, size 3072k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=41 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5606 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: SiS745 ATA 100 (2nd gen) controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hdb: probing with STATUS(0x18) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x08) hdb: S, ATA DISK drive hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: CD-W540E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: recal_intr: status=0x90 { Busy } hdb: host protected area => 1 hdb: 2083840 sectors (1067 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16280/16/8 hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt Partition check: hdb:<3>hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: read_intr: status=0x98 { Busy } ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80 hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: irq timeout: status=0x10 { SeekComplete } hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: lost interrupt hdb: read_intr: status=0xd8 { Busy } ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 28 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 30 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 28 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 30 unable to read partition table ide: late registration of driver. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 792k freed EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. hdd: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-106 Rev: 1.22 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-W540E Rev: 2.4A Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 15x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray NCR53c406a: no available ports found aec671x_detect: scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card) GDT: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 2.05 GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003) megaraid: no BIOS enabled. DC390: 0 adapters found Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 8 hptraid: Error reading superblock. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 8 hptraid: Error reading superblock. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 8 hptraid: Error reading superblock. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 8 hptraid: Error reading superblock. megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003) megaraid: no BIOS enabled. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2083832 pdcraid: Error reading superblock. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2083832 pdcraid: Error reading superblock. Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found Guestimating sector 2083695 for superblock end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2083688 silraid: Error reading superblock. driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf0b3e000, IRQ 19 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 3 ports detected usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf0b40000, IRQ 23 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.3, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2) usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 3 ports detected Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. blk: queue c0359328, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01 cloop: loaded (max 8 devices) cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 28754 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes. ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1) Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found. Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found. usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usbdevfs: remount parameter error Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf0c2a000, 00:0e:2e:0c:c1:d1, IRQ 18 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' cmpci: version $Revision: 6.16 $ time 19:47:57 Apr 17 2004 cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xa000 irq 17 cmpci: chip version = 055 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M agpgart: Detected SiS 745 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 [drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xe8000000 64MB [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 |
Open box.
Check IDE-cable. Check power-cable.(to drive) If those are OK and your BIOS still can't find your primary master , be prepared to pay tribute to the computer-store.(ie.-That'll be a new drive then.) |
Are the drive jumpers configured properly on the back of the drive. Remember the second drive must be jumpered as slave and on the correct end of the ide cable.
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I played around with my BIOS, restarted some times and the problem was fixed (i don't think it had to do with the BIOS however) The first time before it started booting right, the BIOS also complained, that it couldn't find the keyboard! I pressed F1 to continue and everything went smoothly. The next time i booted there wasn't any complain at all.
All these are very strange and i am still investigating. Could it be a problem with my motherboard? |
How old is the MB? Try updating the bios firmware, if necessary. Go to the MB manufacturers website, Download the bios update and follow the directions carefully.:)
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The m/b is about 3 years old, but could an old bios cause such a problem?
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It could if the jumper is set to slave but if it was used previously as master then it probably would not. It does sound like its a bios or MBR problem.
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