From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757215AbYDCXSc (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:18:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752423AbYDCXSW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:18:22 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54132 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751519AbYDCXSV (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:18:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:17:33 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1: Intel SATA boot failure Message-Id: <20080403161733.c05dac53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <47F56363.4090002@imap.cc> References: <20080401213214.8fbb6d6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47F56363.4090002@imap.cc> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:08:19 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Andrew Morton schrieb: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc8/2.6.25-rc8-mm1/ > > This fails to come up on my development machine, apparently because it > has trouble accessing the SATA hard disks. > Hardware: Intel Pentium D940, Intel DQ965GF board, two SATA hard disks. > Some unusual things I noticed during the boot process: > > - a message "doing fast boot" that looked unfamiliar; unfortunately > it scrolled off too quickly to note its context > > - for each of the two SATA ports in use, a message > "SATA port is slow to respond, please be patient" > accompanied by about 10 secs wait > > - it actually got past the point where it mounts the root file system, > so it must have thought it could access the disks > > - finally, the system hung completely after the SUSE startup messages > > Setting current sysctl status from /etc/sysctl.conf > net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1 > > with a dead keyboard and I had to hit the Win^Wreset button. > > - After rebooting into 2.6.24-rc8 (which works fine), nothing had been > written to the disks, not even the dmesg output which SUSE usually > dumps into /var/log/boot.msg early during startup. > > Before I try booting that kernel again, any instructions on what to > watch out for? Is netconsole usable again? Yes, netconsole is usable again ;) > Other ideas? Usual stuff: `diff -u dmesg-2.6.25-rc8 dmesg-2.6.25-rc8-mm1'. Bisection. Thanks.