Re: Custom debian-installer kernel - was: Re: Up cl

Hi Christian,

thanks for the boot log!
Overall, your machine looks pretty "normal". Nothing special.
But regarding DVD drive:

On 1/3/26 23:31, Christian Groessler wrote:
>> You mentioned that the standard kernel failed to detect your CDROM driv=
e.
>> In most (somewhat newer) HP machines the CDROM drive was ATA connected
>> to on-board controllers.
>=20
> I looks like ATA, I have to type "boot IDE" in order to boot the CD.

Yes, you have a HL DVD ROM drive on ATA (built-in ns87415 ATA chip).
Here is the relevant output.

This looks normal:

[   22.072309] scsi host2: pata_ns87415
[   22.115650] sd 1:0:6:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[   22.181110] sd 1:0:5:0: [sda] 71132960 512-byte logical blocks: (36.4 G=
B/33.9 GiB)
[   22.272074] scsi host3: pata_ns87415
[   22.315107] sd 1:0:6:0: [sdb] 143374738 512-byte logical blocks: (73.4 =
GB/68.4 GiB)
[   22.407216] ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0xf00 ctl 0xe00 bmdma 0xa00 irq 7=
 lpm-pol 0
[   22.496865] ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0xd00 ctl 0xb00 bmdma 0xa08 irq 7=
 lpm-pol 0

[   24.780519] ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B, 0018, max UDMA/44

But here it somehow failed.

[   32.276889] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xa0)
[   32.343639] ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=3D0x5)
[   37.781616] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xa0)
[   37.848335] ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=3D0x4)
[   37.914066] ata1.00: limiting speed to MWDMA2:PIO3
[   43.339662] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xa0)
[   43.406394] ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=3D0x4)
[   43.472114] ata1.00: disable device

So, the DVD drive is being disabled by the kernel after some time.
I'm not 100% sure if that is the problem. The messages could also have
been caused by other things. Nevertheless, "disabling device" seems strang=
e.
Is this the official drive which came with the machine?
According to [1] it seems to have sometimes issues with CD-ROMs:
[1 - german:] https://www.windowsforum.de/thema/firmwareupdate-bei-lg-gdr-=
8162b.65076/
Maybe it's worth to test with another CD/DVD drive?

The other aspect:
Even if the drive is failing with "your kernel", could you please
try to boot the CD I mentioned and post the serial console output as well:=
 ?
http://backup.parisc-linux.org/debian-cd/debian-12/debian-2025-01-hppa-CD.=
iso
I would like to know where boot is failing, and if we get at least some ou=
tput on the console.

Helge