On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 06:30:41AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2021 03:50:19 didier gaumet wrote: > > > Le 15/04/2021 à 02:29, Albretch Mueller a écrit : > > > if I boot up passing to the kernel the start up option: > > > > > > knoppix64 debug pci=nomsi noapic > > > > > > I would get just two lines further bellow: > > > > > > pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled > > > PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 > > > PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered > > > > > > and the boot process would stop. > > > > > > is there a way for me to know what the next step would be? The > > > kernel boot up logs should be " (do)ing ....", "... ok" > >
Hello Albretch Are you still subject to constraints in what you can do with your hardware: I know a while back in other threads on this mailing list you said that you had to use virtual machines / live disks. Is this a desktop / laptop and do you have the ability to change whatever settings you need? All the very best, as ever, Andy C. > > [...] > > > > Hello Albretch, > > > > I do not know if there is a way to deduce what the next step is in the > > boot process of a particular hardware. And with systemd, the boot > > procedure is parallelized > > > > I am afraid I have no tried and easy solution to propose to you > > > > I do not know what you motherboard is and how old it is. > > > > What I suggest would be to investigate if your BIOS or UEFI has > > particular settings for PCI and try to adapt them to the hardware > > present and the OS installed/to be installed. > > > > As a further measure, you could try to play with the different kernel > > parameters to see if there is an improvement: > > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.ht > >ml > > > > concerned parameters could be: > > - *debug* (to increase the level on information you get at boot, but I > > doubt it alittle because the Debian kernel is not built with all debug > > options in order to be quicker at runtime) > > - *irq* (whith the nomsi option, the system would, it seems, be in irq > > mode) - *acpi* > > - *bios* (to try to forbid the bios to be called by the OS to > > determine how to call MSI/IRQ) > > - *pci* and *pcie* > > > > As with Knoppix, you can pass a kernel option to the boot in Debian by > > hitting "e" key at boot to edit the command line to launch the kernel > > > > Good luck :-) > > Or you could do what I did after fighting with an msi board for several > years a decade back, feed it to the trash can and replace it with an ARK > shoebox w/intel atom D-525-MW motherboad that was just enough power to > get the job done, and Just Worked for a decade. But just in the last 90 > days has been replaced with a stack of Dell 7010's with i5 cpu's, off > lease stuff for $150/copy. Much faster stuff, and makes 4 of the 6 > running in my farm identical. Simplifies things quite a bit. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >
