Where oh where has my DVD-CD drive gone?

PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435024] found
ata2: disabling port

Looks like you need a bios update or to research this little bit of info on the web to see what ita all about. I would check the makers site for info on this cause who knows what its referring to. Or use the output info in a web search?????

jim

Jim,

Thank you for your comment. I called Sager and they are looking into the problem. I did a net search and came up with some hits that indicate to me that it is a BIOS problem. The BIOS is dated May 2006 right now. The chassis of this Sager laptop is made by Clevo.

I have not tried installing GRUB to the root partition rather than to the MBR. I don't know if that is a viable workaround until the BIOS can be upgraded by Clevo or Sager. I am also not sure if installing GRUB that way would result in awkward bootup or not.

Any other ideas would be welcome.

Der Alte

One thing I forgot to mention. With only XP installed and booting the Mepis 6.0 live CD, I get the line:
PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435024] found
as the first line on the screen. However, I do not get the line:
ata2: disabling port
following it. With the live CD running, I can locate the CD drive. This makes sense since I booted Mepis from it.

So, perhaps the BIOS error does not matter at all. The ata2 port being disabled may be preventing whatever device attached to it from being mounted. Does this make sense?

Der Alte

Der Alte the only thing to work around this that i can think of is possibly on that second ide channel there is a bios setting like auto that you may be able to change to irq 15 or point it to an available free irq manually. Its highly unlikely but might be worth a look, laptops have some strange (to me) quirks and setups and i am by no means an authority in regards to them.
Probably the best suggestion i have is to drop Warren and crew a line at maybe the wizzards have an idea whats going on. Other than that maybe comparing notes between the live cd hardware setup and the hdd install will provide a clue.
I friend bought a sony viao a few years back that had allmost every thing in xp using irq9 how they pulled that off i still dont know or why that was needed is a mystery to me. Allso after calling sony they said it was normal???
If youre up on bios settings there may be others to try.
Good luck!

jim

Jim,

Thanks for the ideas. I think I will make a comparison between the live CD and the hdd install as you suggested and send it to the Mepis wizards. Tech support at Sager who provide the Clevo chassis are stumped so far. They don't seem to be all that dedicated to Linux.

Thanks again, I'll keep trying and post a solution someday, I hope

Der Alte,

I have exactly the same problem with a Clevo based Rock XCTX laptop (spec here)

http://www.rockdirect.com/notebooks/xtremectx_cons.htm

with T2600 core duo processor and nVidia 7900 GTX 256MB graphics.

Also, I've got a GRUB-based dual boot of Windows XP Home and SUSE 10.1 instead of Mepis...here's my dmesg output:

Linux version 2.6.16.13-4-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fe80000 - 000000007fe8b000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fe8b000 - 000000007ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff00000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1150MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f7760
On node 0 totalpages: 523904
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 294528 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f76b0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x7fe85724
ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8ae20
ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8ae94
ACPI: HPET (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8aefc
ACPI: MCFG (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8af34
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x7fe8af70
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x7fe8afd8
ACPI: SSDT (v001 SataRe SataPri 0x00001000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x7fe867d2
ACPI: SSDT (v001 SataRe SataSec 0x00001000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x7fe86136
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef CpuPm 0x00003000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x7fe8576c
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: 2 duplicate APIC table ignored.
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:14 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 6:14 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
Overriding APIC driver with bigsmp
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Physflat. Using 1 I/O APICs
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:60000000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda7 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 2070828k/2095616k available (1612k kernel code, 23572k reserved, 730k data, 188k init, 1178112k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000 (virtual 0xf8800000), IRQs 2, 8, 0
hpet0: 3 64-bit timers, 14318180 Hz
Using HPET for base-timer
Using HPET for gettimeofday
Detected 2161.339 MHz processor.
Using hpet for high-res timesource
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4328.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=8656727)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000c1a9 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000c1a9 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000140 0000c1a9 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 2359k freed
not found!
CPU0: Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz stepping 08
Leaving ESR disabled.
Enabling SMP...
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
Initializing CPU#1
Leaving ESR disabled.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4322.73 BogoMIPS (lpj=8645467)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000c1a9 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000c1a9 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000140 0000c1a9 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz stepping 08
Total of 2 processors activated (8651.09 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Enabling SMP...
Brought up 2 CPUs
migration_cost=0
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: BIOS BUG #81[00000000] found
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.2
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Bus #07 (-#0a) is hidden behind transparent bridge #06 (-#07) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEGP._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP01._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP02._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP03._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 *7 10 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 23) interrupt mode.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
TC classifier action (bugs to cc )
Setting up standard PCI resources
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x6a0-0x6af has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x6b0-0x6ff has been reserved
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@d0000000 for 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 2000-2fff
MEM window: d8000000-d9ffffff
PREFETCH window: c0000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
IO window: 3000-3fff
MEM window: d4000000-d5ffffff
PREFETCH window: d0000000-d1ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
IO window: 4000-4fff
MEM window: d6000000-d7ffffff
PREFETCH window: d2000000-d3ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:06:07.0
IO window: 00005400-000054ff
IO window: 00005800-000058ff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-89ffffff
MEM window: 8c000000-8dffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: 5000-5fff
MEM window: da000000-da0fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8affffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1155676362.216:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie00]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie02]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie02]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie02]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 6144k, total 262144k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:cf20
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 47089 bytes,<6>...found (1024x768, 27542 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 124x44
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 8250
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID0 PWRB SLPB HDEF PXS1 PXS2 PXS3 GLAN MODM
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 287k
SCSI subsystem initialized
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
libata version 1.20 loaded.
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05
ata_pci_init_one: pci_dev class+intf: 0x10180
ata_pci_init_one: NO_LEGACY == 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 233
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x18B0 irq 14
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
ata1: dev 0 cfg 00:045a 49:0f00 82:746b 83:7f69 84:4063 85:7469 86:3d49 87:4063 88:203f 93:0000
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/100, 195371568 sectors: LBA48
ata_acpi_push_id: skipping for PATA mode
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
pata_get_dev_handle: ENTER: dev->bus_id='0000:00:1f.2'
pata_get_dev_handle: dev_handle: 0xdffe5b00, parent_handle: 0xdffe94e0
pata_get_dev_handle: for dev=0x1f.2, addr=0x1f0002, parent=0xdff65400, *handle=0xdffe5b00
do_drive_get_GTF: drive w/ adr=0: v: 0xdffe4500
scsi0 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: HTS721010G9SA00 Rev: MCZO
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
pata_get_dev_handle: ENTER: dev->bus_id='0000:00:1f.2'
pata_get_dev_handle: dev_handle: 0xdffe5b00, parent_handle: 0xdffe94e0
pata_get_dev_handle: for dev=0x1f.2, addr=0x1f0002, parent=0xdff65400, *handle=0xdffe5b00
ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x18B8 irq 15
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
ata2: disabling port
scsi1 : ata_piix
pata_get_dev_handle: ENTER: dev->bus_id='0000:00:1f.2'
pata_get_dev_handle: dev_handle: 0xdffe5b00, parent_handle: 0xdffe94e0
pata_get_dev_handle: for dev=0x1f.2, addr=0x1f0002, parent=0xdff65400, *handle=0xdffe5b00
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI Warning (acpi_thermal-0385): Invalid passive threshold [20060127]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (44 C)
Attempting manual resume
ReiserFS: sda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda7: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: sda7: journal params: device sda7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda7: checking transaction log (sda7)
ReiserFS: sda7: Using r5 hash to sort names
Adding 2104472k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2104472k
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 50
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 50, io mem 0xda304000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb1: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.16.13-4-smp ehci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.7
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:07.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[177] MMIO=[da006000-da0067ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:0b.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf92c6c00, 00:90:f5:4d:34:65, IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 50
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 50, io base 0x00001800
usb usb2: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb2: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb2: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.16.13-4-smp uhci_hcd
usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.0
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 233
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 233, io base 0x00001820
usb usb3: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb3: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb3: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.16.13-4-smp uhci_hcd
usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.1
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 185, io base 0x00001840
usb usb4: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb4: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb4: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.16.13-4-smp uhci_hcd
usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.2
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 169, io base 0x00001860
usb usb5: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0000
usb usb5: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb5: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb5: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.16.13-4-smp uhci_hcd
usb usb5: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.3
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ieee80211_crypt: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:06:07.0 [1558:0571]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 58
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 0.0.73d
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
usb 2-2: new device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c01b
usb 2-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 2-2: Product: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Logitech
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cf8, PCI irq 169
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x5000 - 0x5fff
cs: IO port probe 0x5000-0x5fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xda000000 - 0xda0fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x88000000 - 0x8affffff
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
hw_random: RNG not detected
hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC880, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0800385600000068]
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2097: autoconfig: line_outs=2 (0x14/0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2101: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2103: hp=0x0, dig_out=0x1e, din_in=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2111: inputs: mic=0x18, fmic=0x0, line=0x1a, fline=0x0, cd=0x1c, aux=0x0
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x370-0x377
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x3f0-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7:<6>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 23 802.11a channels)
device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised:
dm-netlink version 0.0.2 loaded
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
ReiserFS: sda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda6: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: sda6: journal params: device sda6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda6: checking transaction log (sda6)
ReiserFS: sda6: Using r5 hash to sort names
NTFS driver 2.1.26 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
AppArmor: AppArmor (version 2.0-19.43r6320) initialized
audit(1155676384.837:2): AppArmor (version 2.0-19.43r6320) initialized

NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8192 buckets, 65536 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP0] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
r8169: eth0: link down
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ieee80211_crypt_wep: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready

Hope that gives you, the Mepis team and Clevo techies something to work with.

Let me know if there's any other info that I could give that would be useful.

Meanwhile, I've raised a thread on the Rock forum ( www.rockforum.co.uk ) that references this one:

http://www.rockforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=116159

Im wondering if either of you have a floppy drive . I have an idea but you have to have a flopp drive.

jim

IndigoBoy,

Your dmesg looks very similar to mine when I had installed SuSE 10.0. I tried Mepis 6.0 after that.

You show the Bios bug #81 and the ata2 disabling port in your file. I don't have my SuSE dmesg.

My Mepis dmesg file shows

PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435024] found
instead of
PCI: BIOS BUG #81[00000000] found
in your SuSE 10.1 file.

You have the Clevo 570U chassis as I do.

I will pass your post along to the Sager tech people. Maybe it will help both of us.

Der Alte

Jim,

I don't have a floppy drive to work with but perhaps IndigoBoy does.

Der ALte

Well it still may work but you will have to install grub to MBR and fix it again if it doesnt work. Boot er up with the live cd and log in as root root in gui. Go to the Mepis utilities under system administration and reinstall grub bootloader. The big diffrence this time is reinstall grub with initrd it says for experts only next to the little squars box that has to be checked. Install it to mbr then close the pane then go back and open it again check the box again and tic install to root it should respond with grub installed ok in both instances . My idea is that an initrd boot may give the system time to make a node for the other channel since you will be using it while running live, allso it should be im thinking in the initrd image. Dont know for sure but i think its worth a try, i think you have that fixmbr down by now.
Good luck! jim

Sorry guys, I don't have a floppy either.

Out of interest, Der Alte, what make of combo DVD/CD-ROM do you have on your Sager ?

Mine's a Sony DVD RW DW-Q520A and I couldn't find it anywhere on the SUSE compatible hardware list

http://cdb.suse.de/?LANG=en_US

......maybe it's too new ?

Another pointer to hardware compatibility problems is that I tried to boot up using a Knoppix Live CD, as suggested here:

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2004/03/29/migrating_from_windows_to_linux/page3.html

....and it just shut down half way through the boot cycle.

Also, I'd really appreciate a quick pointer towards how to fix the MBR so that I could go back to Windows with a working DVD.

I do understand that I'd lose the dual-boot capability, but SUSE's easy to reinstall if this problem gets resolved.

Thanks,

IndigoBoy

Jim,

I'll give it a try. Sager is now going to consult with Taiwan, presumeably Clevo as to what the problem might be.

They said:

We suspect the contact between the CD-ROM
drive and the connector on the motherboard may caused the problem. We do not have solid proof yet.
We will forward this case to the engineer in Taiwan
for help.

I replied:

If it may be a problem with the contact between the CD-ROM drive and the connector on the motherboard, why is everything working fine right now with only Windows installed or even while running the Mepis live CD?

I think I'll try your suggestion, Jim.

Thanks for your help.

IndigoBoy,

My DVD drive is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K16/1

Here are my system specs:

***************************************
Laptop System Specs: Sager NP5750V

Sager NP5750 FORCE
17" WXGA+ (1440x900) Matte LCD Display
ATi RADEON X1600 w/Up to 512MB HyperMemory
Intel Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz Processor w/2MB L2 On-die cache 667MHz FSB
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
2,048MB (2 SODIMMS) DDR2/667 Dual Channel Memory
80GB SATA/150 Hard Drive at 5,400 RPM 80GB
Ultra SATA/150 5,400 RPM 2nd Hard Drive w/ Bracket for Modular Bay

Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW Drive
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g
Windows XP Home installed by Sager

HDD1 (internal fixed hard drive)
Fujitsu MHV2080BH Serial ATA 80 Gb 2006-05
Part#: CA06672-B038

HDD2 (for modular bay, can swap with DVD/CD ROM drive)
Fujitsu MHV2080BH Serial ATA 80 Gb 2006-05
Part#: CA06672-B038

DVD/CD drive (for modular bay, can swap with hard drive)
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K16/1
MFG March 2006
*****************************

To fix the MBR, boot up with your Windows disk and choose
R to go to the Restore Console.

Then type fixmbr
Then type fixboot
Then remove your Windows disk
Then reboot and you will be in Windows and your drive
will appear. Unfortunately, you are stuck in the squalid world of Windows.

Hope this helps. Read my reply to Jim for the latest from Sager tech support.

Der Alte

Thanks Der Alte, for the rescue tips.

I'm going to go back to Windows this weekend just to prove that the DVD still works.

Also thinking about downloading the SUSE 10.1 Live CD image and booting it up to test the hardware compatibility.

I guess if it's anything like your experience with Mepis Live then the DVD should work OK.

I'll report back next week....

Consider using the Windows loader (ntlrd) for your boot menu. Use (free) bootpart, http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm, to set it up.

First make sure that your windows installation is working to your satisfaction, and that GRUB is installed on the Linux boot partition. At this point, Windows is blissfully unaware of Linux. Bootpart will then copy the GRUB loader file from the root partition to a file on the windows C drive and add a line to the Window boot menu in boot.ini.

This is the least intrusive (to Windows) way to put up a multi-boot menu on your PC.

Jim,

I did try your suggestion but no cigar. It seemed quite sensible to me but the computer wouldn't go for it. I have noticed that if I get the "PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435024] found" but not the "ata2: disabling port", all is well. I don't know if the two are sometimes or always related but the "ata2: disabling port" seems to be the showstopper. The ata2 port being disabled may be preventing whatever
device attached to it from being mounted.

I wonder if there is a way of enabling the port after bootup. That might be a workaround. Sager is not being particularly helpful and I doubt I could get in contact with Clevo myself. I might try though.

When installed Mepis begins to boot, the following appears on the screen just as before:

PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435024] found

ata2: disabling port

When Mepis live CD begins to boot, the following appears on the screen:

PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435024] found

The ata2: disabling port does not appear.
With the live CD running, I can locate
the CD drive. This makes sense since I booted Mepis
from it.

I thank you for your help Jim and I'll keep plugging away at the problem. I'll try light9's idea next.

Der Alte

If you havent taken grub off yet try apic=off after pressing f3 and adding it to the grub boot string. May not work but who knows. I thought initrd had a good chance ....

jim

I have read all of your post. I too have DVD problems and am wondering if it is a kernel problem. Here is my kernel log:

Aug 17 21:07:09 localhost kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@48000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 17 21:07:10 localhost kernel: ata2: disabling port
Aug 17 21:07:10 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
Aug 17 21:07:10 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Aug 17 21:07:10 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: can't set config #1, error -71
Aug 17 21:16:00 localhost kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@48000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 17 21:16:00 localhost kernel: ata2: disabling port
Aug 17 21:16:00 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
Aug 17 21:16:00 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Aug 17 21:16:00 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: can't set config #1, error -71
Aug 17 21:36:54 localhost kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@48000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 17 21:36:54 localhost kernel: ata2: disabling port
Aug 17 21:36:54 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
Aug 17 21:36:54 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Aug 17 21:36:54 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: can't set config #1, error -71
Aug 17 22:28:19 localhost kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@48000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 17 22:28:19 localhost kernel: ata2: disabling port
Aug 17 22:28:19 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/all
Aug 17 22:28:19 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -71
Aug 18 22:32:21 localhost kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@48000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 18 22:32:21 localhost kernel: ata2: disabling port
Aug 18 22:32:21 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
Aug 18 22:32:21 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Aug 18 22:32:21 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: can't set config #1, error -71
Aug 18 22:37:04 localhost kernel: NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls= in the future.
Aug 18 22:47:19 localhost kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@48000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 18 22:47:19 localhost kernel: ata2: disabling port
Aug 18 22:47:19 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
Aug 18 22:47:19 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Aug 18 22:47:19 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: can't set config #1, error -71
Aug 18 23:29:06 localhost kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@48000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 18 23:29:06 localhost kernel: ata2: disabling port
Aug 18 23:29:06 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
Aug 18 23:29:06 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Aug 18 23:29:06 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: can't set config #1, error -71
Aug 18 23:32:26 localhost kernel: NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls= in the future.

Wayne

Wayne did you try a diffrent kernel Warren has compiled several and it doesnt take too long to add another. Are you runnin a laptop too?

jim

No, l have a desktop PC.

Wayne

Wayne i know youre not a newbie can you give some details about your hardware and when this started or has this been a continuing thing for some time? Things youve tried and what your take is would help. Other than the cdrom is it working allright, its kind of a strange error on a desktop . (for me anyway)

jim

Tried a couple of Live CD distros with mixed results....

SUSE Linux 10.1 Live CD fails with the following error after loading the kernel:

init: Cannot find the CD I was booted from - doh !
(Need to mount this CD/DVD to /.CD.real)

So I have to conclude that SUSE 10.1 of any flavour and Clevo M57U based laptops do not mix.

However, I did successfully boot the kubuntu 6.06 Live CD with no problems at all.

A real mixed bag then......

Thats interesting im wondering if you installed kubuntu to drive , or if you plan to do so. Im courious as to the results.

jim

Hi Jim,

No plans to install kubuntu just yet, but will keep you posted if I do.

Incidentally, found another forum thread from somebody who's having exactly the same SUSE 10.1 Live CD error that I get:

http://mdlug.org/pipermail/mdlug/2006-July/011404.html

...except that he's attempting to boot it on a Dell Latitude D610 laptop......so it's not specific to Clevo-based machines then !!!

hi,

I have the same problem as well as the same notebook (clevo), and I use Ubuntu.

(sorry for bad english)

I have found a soluton that give brings my drive to windows.

instead of grub I now use lilo on the mbr whitch directly boots Windows and grub on the boot part of my 3 partition,

I cant boot linux directly from lilo, because after some time of work the system (gnome) freeze, and the tty1-shell tell me:
error: ata2 is slow to reponse
(I really wondering about that because lilo use the same boot options as grub, and it would be interresting if anybody has the same problem)

anyway there are still problems with the dvd/cd drive left:
1. still no drive on linux, only on windows
2. sometimes windows has some burn problems

hope it (lilo) helps anyone
jason8

Hi there,

well i got my hands on a clevo m570u with bios 1.00.03 ...

I also had the problems that the dvd disappeared after the linux (SuSE 10.1) installation. But the booting from the drive is working !!

Well the workaround for SuSe was, to disable the acpi as the bios of the clevo barebone has some specialities for the controller and therefore causes some timeouts...

i used the grub option acpi=off and there you go.. the drive is up and running... btw. the harddrive is working without any option switch..

windows is another problem.. my tests showed up, when setting the windows partition active everything is running fine and the drives show up.

So my workaround is as follows:
1. change grub options with acpi=off
2. install another bootloader which only switches active partitions between linux and windows
3. wait for the next bios revision, which hopefully resolves the acpi issues.

So long,

Thorsten

I found your forum while researching the disappearance of both my cd and my dvd drives. It sounds like I have a similar issue on a pc desktop that was working fine last week.
Now, the drives power up during the post and open when the button is pressed but they do not run cd's and do not appear in My Computer. They are in device manager but only the cd drive reports it is working. The dvd has a ! and reports no driver.
I have deleted both in Device Manager and rebooted. It appears that windows sees both devices as new hardware and installs drivers, but the problem remains.
Any suggestions would save what little hair I have left at this point

@thorsten

hi, thank you for the idea (acpi=off), but on my system (Ubuntu) I now can see the DVD device (scd0) but if I try to mount it the console freezes up, so it isnt helpfull

for your second point: try lilo

@BagelAnne

hi, your problem isnt like this one, but

some suggestions: 1. did you change some Devices (like HDD or DVD or CD) than check if the jumpers are right
2. is the information of the bootsplash correct, i mean is the device name right, if not check the cables (it is a simple idea but sometimes the simple things are the one we dont see first)

I have almost the exact same problem on a M570U with Gentoo. Before I installed Grub my optical drive showed up perfectly, but after it's simply gone. The Gentoo live CD will boot fine, but after installing neither the optical drive or the second HDD will show up in Linux.

Now, I seem to have one major difference. The second HDD has no problems showing up in Windows. After much trial and error I've determined that if I pop the second HDD in and boot Windows, safely remove the second HDD via the tray icon, pop it out, pop the DVD in, go to device manager, right click the entry for the second HDD that USED to be there and click scan for changes, it recognizes my DVD again. However, as soon as I reboot it's gone.

I don't know what else to tell you. I haven't found any other solutions to any of the problems that this causes.

hi
did you try to use lilo instead of grub ?