USB booting :: linuxrc script MOD question

I noticed in knoppix version 5.1.1 it has a slow down script to read the USB device more carefully and that one works flawlessy on my Dell D820. DSL-3.4 and Knoppix version 3.6 never is able to read the knoppix image. I like Knoppix version 3.6 because it has both 2.4x and 2.6x kernels to choose from.

Here is is:

# All interactively requested modules should be loaded now.

# Give USB-Storage devices some more time to register
if test -d /proc/scsi/usb-storage; then
echo -n "${CRE}${BLUE}Allowing slow USB-devices some more time to register...${NORMAL}"
ash -c "sleep 6"
echo "${BLUE}Ok.${NORMAL}"
fi

# Check for ide-scsi supported CD-Roms et al.
test -r /proc/scsi/scsi && FOUND_SCSI="yes"

I put the before and after script so you know where it is in version 5.1.1 but that is the key I believe that makes 5.1.1 work on all systems. Is it possible to adapt that script to linuxrc file for DSL-3.4?

Maybe that alone will not take care of the problem? I am going to try an older version of DSL to see if that works.

Anyone good with bash scripting let me know what I have to modify in that script in order to try it in the DSL-3.4 linuxrc bash file? Thanks

I have this as a replacement for the wait_usb function in linuxrc and will be available in 3.4.2 and the next dsl 4.

I would rather not penalize everyone with this slow down "sleep 6". But instead leave it as a separate (existing) boot option of "waitusb"

If you wish, just modify the existing wait_usb function on the line

sleep 1

to

ash -c "sleep 1"

See if this works, as it loops and exits when found thus not wating to wait the full count of 6.

If not, then just repace the entire function with the

wait_usb(){
ash -c "sleep 6"
}

Since you have such hardware to test this, it will be great to get your feedback.

First off thanks very much for the reply and suggestions.

I actually tried all four methods changing sleep 1 to sleep 6.

Then modifying the line sleep 1 to ash -c "sleep 1"

Then modifying it to ash -c "sleep 6"

Then finally removing or actually adding #'s to about 6 or seven lines of that wait_usb function and replacing as you said with:

wait_usb(){
ash -c "sleep 6"
}

I basically copied and pasted that. Should there be a space between the () ? Like this ( ) and also a space between () and { ?

Anyhow nothing seemed to help. The kernel boots perfectly and here is what happens:

probing for SCSI....
checking for USB....
Scanning for USB devices.....Done
Enabling DMA acceleration for hdc
Can't find Knoppix filesystem Sorry
Dropping you to a very limited shell

This also happens with Knoppix v3.6 using both 2.4x and 2.6x kernels but does not happen with Knoppix 5.1.1 usb boot so it cannot be the media or device right? It must be some tricky script the Knoppix 5.1.1 has?

Anayhow what can I pass as a cheatcode at the boot prompt:

waitusb ?

Maybe I can try different times?

My system is a Dell Latitude D820 so if you can find someone you know or if you want me to try anything else or even send me a linuxrc file to try please be my guest. Keep in mind this probably will happen to many Latitude D series like the D600 series etc.

Thanks for your help and hope this can be resolved?

d_freedom@yahoo.com

Thanks for testing this. I am a little confused by your remark on the cheatcode.

In order to call the wait_usb function you will need to pass the waitusb cheatcode at the initial boot prompt

boot: dsl waitusb

plus any other boot options that you normally need.

Or add waitusb to the append section of your boot loader.

Since I don't have any hardware to test this on, I could only extract out the static ash shell from minirt24.gz and run ash -c "sleep 6" and that worked fine. So, I would think, if the boot option waitusb is used, the actual sleep should occur.

Which I tried before modifying the linuxrc bash script file.

at the boot prompt:

dsl waitusb

Did not help. What else could it be? If I put the initrd image file on the USB it boots fine. However once booted into X if I put another USB stick in and run fdisk -l it does not see the additional inseted usb stick and only the one DSL is on /dev/sda. No /dev/sdb shows up.

So it might be a USB driver issue maybe and not a timing issue?

Ok One final piece of information. I booted DSL using the initrd as the image file and have the dmesg below to see if that can tell you anything but as far as I can see the USB devices are seen but not sure if configured correctly? These are USB ports but I set the Bios to 1.1 compatibility.

dmesg:

<4>Linux version 2.4.26 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe81400 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000007fe81400 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4007000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000f4008000 - 00000000f400c000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000feda0000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5>1150MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>896MB LOWMEM available.
<4>On node 0 totalpages: 523905
<4>zone(0): 4096 pages.
<4>zone(1): 225280 pages.
<4>zone(2): 294529 pages.
<4>Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet frugal vga=791 acpi=off dma frugal toram usbmouse BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24
<4>Found and enabled local APIC!
<6>Initializing CPU#0
<4>Detected 2330.266 MHz processor.
<4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 4653.05 BogoMIPS
<6>Memory: 2018736k/2095620k available (1371k kernel code, 76496k reserved, 561k data, 140k init, 1178116k highmem)
<6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
<6>Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
<6>Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
<4>Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
<6>CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
<6>CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
<7>CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
<6>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
<6>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<6>Checking for popad bug... OK.
<4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
<4>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
<4>mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
<6>CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
<6>CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
<7>CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
<4>CPU0: Intel® Core™2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz stepping 06
<4>per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 182.82 usecs.
<5>SMP motherboard not detected.
<4>enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
<4>ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
<4>ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
<4>Using local APIC timer interrupts.
<4>calibrating APIC timer ...
<4>..... CPU clock speed is 2330.2547 MHz.
<4>..... host bus clock speed is 166.4467 MHz.
<4>cpu: 0, clocks: 1664467, slice: 832233
<4>CPU0<T0:1664464,T1:832224,D:7,S:832233,C:1664467>
<4>Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
<4>All processors have done init_idle
<6>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
<6>ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
<6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfacc6, last bus=14
<6>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<6>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
<4>PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
<6>PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.2
<4>Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge
<6>PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/27b9] at 00:1f.0
<6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
<6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
<6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
<6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
<4>Initializing RT netlink socket
<4>Starting kswapd
<4>allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
<5>VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
<6>vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf880d000, size 3072k
<6>vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
<6>vesafb: protected mode interface info at a5f3:1f5f
<6>vesafb: scrolling: redraw
<6>vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
<4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
<6>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
<4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<4>floppy0: no floppy controllers found
<4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<4>hda: ST9160823AS, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: PHILIPS DVD+/-RW SDVD8820, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<4>hda: attached ide-disk driver.
<4>hda: host protected area => 1
<6>hda: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63
<6>Partition check:
<6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
<4>ide: late registration of driver.
<6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
<6>Initializing Cryptographic API
<6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
<6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
<6>IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
<6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
<6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<6>Freeing initrd memory: 49295k freed
<4>EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<4>hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
<6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
<4> Vendor: PHILIPS Model: DVD+-RW SDVD8820 Rev: AD15
<4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
<4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
<6>Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02
<5>megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
<4>megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
<7>Promise Fasttrak™ Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
<4>Guestimating sector 312560384 for superblock
<7>driver for Silicon Image™ Medley™ hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found
<4>cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
<6>cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
<4>cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 1883 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes.
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
<4>cloop: unloaded.
<4>cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
<6>cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
<4>cloop: /cdrom2/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 1883 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes.
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
<6>Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
<6>apm: BIOS not found.
<6>Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
<6> options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
<6>PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 03:01.0
<6>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 03:01.4
<6>Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0090, PCI irq 11
<6>Socket status: 30000006
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc80-0xc87 0xc90-0xc97
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x3b0-0x3df 0x3f8-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
<6>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
<6>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hub
<6>usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004
<6>usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
<6>PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 00:1d.0
<6>IRQ routing conflict for 00:1d.0, have irq 10, want irq 7
<6>IRQ routing conflict for 00:1d.7, have irq 10, want irq 7
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
<6>usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf80, IRQ 10
<4>usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
<6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 2 ports detected
<6>PCI: Found IRQ 1 for device 00:1d.1
<6>IRQ routing conflict for 00:1b.0, have irq 11, want irq 1
<6>IRQ routing conflict for 00:1d.1, have irq 11, want irq 1
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
<6>usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf60, IRQ 11
<4>usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
<6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 2 ports detected
<6>PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 00:1d.2
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
<6>usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf40, IRQ 9
<4>usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
<6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 2 ports detected
<6>PCI: Found IRQ 2 for device 00:1d.3
<6>IRQ routing conflict for 00:1d.3, have irq 5, want irq 2
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
<6>usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf20, IRQ 5
<4>usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
<6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 2 ports detected
<6>usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
<4>usbdevfs: remount parameter error
<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-2, assigned address 2
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 4 ports detected
<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.2-1, assigned address 2
<4>usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x84) is not claimed by any active driver.
<6>Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
<6>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 3 ports detected
<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-2, assigned address 3
<4>usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x5dc/0x80) is not claimed by any active driver.
<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1.2, assigned address 4
<4>usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0xb97/0x7762) is not claimed by any active driver.
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hid
<6>input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse] on usb3:2.0
<6>hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
<6>hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
<6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
<6>Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
<6>usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
<6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
<4> Vendor: LEXAR Model: DIGITAL FILM Rev: /W1.
<4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
<4>SCSI device sda: 125952 512-byte hdwr sectors (64 MB)
<4>sda: Write Protect is off
<6> sda: sda1
<7>WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
<7>USB Mass Storage device found at 3
<6>USB Mass Storage support registered.
<3>hw_random: RNG not detected
<4>FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
<4>Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xd6e80000 sector=1.
<4>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
<4>FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
<4>Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xd6e80000 sector=1.
<4>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
<5>NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/W MODULE]
<6>Adding Swap: 4096532k swap-space (priority -1)
<4>Registering unionfs 1.0.14
<6>cdrom: open failed.
<6>cdrom: open failed.
<6>ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
<4>FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
<4>Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xd6e80000 sector=1.
<4>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
<4>FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
<4>Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xd6e80000 sector=1.
<4>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
<6>apm: BIOS not found.
<3>NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only
<4>EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
<4>

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