Dell L800r won't boot CD 700MB/DVDs
Hi All,
Here's what I have tried: 1. CDRW drive will only boot 650MB discs 2. DVD-ROM drive will only boot 650MB discs The discs I'm trying to boot, are known good discs that boot in other boxes. 3. I flashed the m/b bios to the latest, and flashed the CDRW's firmware to the latest. I can't find anything else to flash. Here's the hardware: Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation Product name: L800r DMI Version: 2.3 Motherboard Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Model : CA810E Version: AAA01025-310 Serial Number: 0007157X124650BD00I8 Chipset Model: 82810E 810e Host-Hub Interface and Memory Controller Chipset Vendor: Intel Corporation CPU: Intel Pentium III CPU socket: Socket 370 [J5H1] Processor Upgrade: ZIF Socket Max CPU speed: 1000 MHz OnBoard devices: Enabled Video: Intel GMCH AGP Graphics Controller Capacity: 384 MBytes Location: System board or motherboard Maximum Capacity: 524288 MBytes Maximum Memory Module Size: 256 MBytes Slots: 2 Error Correction: None Name: Physical Memory Array Use: System memory SMBus: @0000efa0 PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801AA 8xx Chipset SMBus Controller BIOS Version: DELL - 20010905 BIOS Date: 09/05/2001 BIOS Web page: www.award.com BIOS Vendor: Intel Corp. Version: A14 BIOS size: 512 KB LG_CD-RW_CED-8080B______________________1.80____ IDE\Maxtor_32049H2__________________________YAH814Y0 Intel(R) 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2411&SUBSYS_24118086&REV_02\3&61AAA01&0&F9 ADMtek AN983 based ethernet adapter Device ID PCI\VEN_1317&DEV_0985&SUBSYS_EC021113&REV_11\4&24AB0D93&0&58F0 Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) Intel(R) 82801AA PCI Bridge What have I missed? Why won't this machine boot a 700MB CD or a DVD? Thanks. T |
It would help to include the relevant portions of dmesg.
Mike |
Ok, this is the dmesg from Knoppix. I had wiped OpenBSD & WinXP on there to install some firmware. I'll put OpenBSD back later. Hope this helps.
-- Linux version 2.6.19 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)) #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 17 22:01:07 CET 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ec0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ec0000 - 0000000017ef8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ef8000 - 0000000017f00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 382MB LOWMEM available. Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 97984) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 97984 HighMem 97984 -> 97984 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 97984 On node 0 totalpages: 97984 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 733 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 93155 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000ff980 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL MUMMY 0x20010905 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x17ef0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL MUMMY 0x20010905 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x17ef1000 ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL MUMMY 0x20010905 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x17ef4000 ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL DIM_L 0x00000013 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 17f00000:e7c80000) Detected 797.449 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 97219 Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux screen=1280x1024 depth=16 Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0130b000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 382312k/391936k available (2747k kernel code, 9088k reserved, 958k data, 336k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xffe16000 - 0xfffff000 (1956 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xd8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 623 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd7ec0000 ( 382 MB) .init : 0xc04a6000 - 0xc04fa000 ( 336 kB) .data : 0xc03aef9c - 0xc049e7b4 ( 958 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03aef9c (2747 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1596.23 BogoMIPS (lpj=3192472) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed ACPI: Core revision 20060707 ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e08) CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 SMP motherboard not detected. Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. Brought up 1 CPUs checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1188k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH4 GPIO Boot video device is 0000:01:08.0 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0 Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP intel_rng: FWH not detected SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 2.00 loaded. PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: d000-dfff MEM window: fc900000-fe9fffff PREFETCH window: f0700000-f47fffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) TCP reno registered Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1 audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1222987906.592:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) fuse init (API version 7.8) fuse distribution version: 2.6.1 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered (default) io scheduler cfq registered vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf2000000, mapped to 0xd8880000, using 3072k, total 16384k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0393 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c03cc, set palette = c00c0442 vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac 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: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ICH: chipset revision 2 ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: Maxtor 32049H2, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: JLMS XJ-HD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 39062500 sectors (20000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38752/16/63 hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-724.<6>PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 EISA: Detected 0 cards. Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 15 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.2[C] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ehci_hcd 0000:01:0a.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:01:0a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd 0000:01:0a.2: irq 11, io mem 0xfe9ef800 ehci_hcd 0000:01:0a.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000ef80 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 3 PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3 ohci_hcd 0000:01:0a.0: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:01:0a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ohci_hcd 0000:01:0a.0: irq 3, io mem 0xfe9ed000 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ohci_hcd 0000:01:0a.1: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:01:0a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ohci_hcd 0000:01:0a.1: irq 10, io mem 0xfe9ee000 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1) ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is obsolete, and will be removed soon! Unable to identify CD-ROM format. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda. ReiserFS: hda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda. ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A cloop: Initializing cloop v2.05 cloop: loaded (max 8 devices) cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 15609 blocks, 131072 bytes/block, largest block is 131098 bytes. cloop: loaded 64 blocks into cache. ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A aufs 2.6.19-20061211 Freeing unused kernel memory: 336k freed ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN] Using specific hotkey driver cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset. powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 E Chipset. agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram. agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 9 PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.14 (May 11, 2002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1. eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at Port 0xd800, 00:50:BF:AF:E6:EE, IRQ 10. Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 NET: Registered protocol family 17 0000:01:0b.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed 0000:01:0b.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1. NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Mobile IPv6 eth0: no IPv6 routers present device-mapper: ioctl: 4.10.0-ioctl (2006-09-14) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:01.0 (0004 -> 0006) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [drm] Initialized i810 1.4.0 20030605 on minor 0 0000:01:0b.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed 0000:01:0b.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1. eth0: no IPv6 routers present |
Hmm, we have a tough one here. Other than the fact that I don't recognize the vendor of your CD/DVD at all, I don't see any red flags here.
I want to make sure I understand you right: disks larger than 650 megs can be booted, included standard 4 GB DVD's? But can you READ (rather than boot) those larger disks? If you can read all 700+ megs of a CD and all 4 GB (or so) of a DVD, the drive is not faulty: your BIOS has a problem. If you can NOT read past 650 megs on a CD or DVD, the drive has issues. To double-check, do the ol' swap out routine by putting this drive in a known good computer. If it works, it's the Dell; if not, it's the drive. In any case, this doesn't look like a Linux (or any OS) problem at this point. Mike |
The DVD-ROM is a LiteOn LTD163D, but I just flashed it with some firmware that doesn't say anything about LiteOn. It seems to function normally in WinXP. Before I flashed it, I had the problem, and I still have the problem. So the firmware makes NO difference.
With either the CDR or DVD-ROM, I can only boot < 650 MB. Except for the knoppix disc which is about 680MB. I believe that the way the .isos that won't boot is part of the problem. The NetBSD CD (700MB) & PCBSD DVD won't boot on the Dell, but boot fine on my laptop or newer desktop. Once booted, I think they read OK, but I can't remember if I tried it. Right now, I only have XP on the box. I'll try to put OpenBSD or NetBSD on it after I get this figured out. I'll try to swap the drive and see what happens. Thank. T |
Hi,
I believe you are experiencing a BIOS problem handling 4K blocks vs 8k blocks. Most older BIOS would handle the 4K data but with new distributions using a 8K data block then the older BIOS could not handle the newer data blocks. BTW, you should place your data such as dmesg or other long lists of data within the vbcode tags quote or code. The balloon at the top of the reply window next to the # is the quote, with the # being code. That way things are easier to read. You can still go back an edit your posts to place the data within the code tags. |
Thanks for the tip on posting in the quotes. I didn't know that. So are you saying that this is no way to make the disks bootable, or can the BIOS be fixed? Thanks.
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Hi,
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If your BIOS has been updated to the manufactures resent level and you still have the problem then you are not going to rid yourself of the BIOS limits. |
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