Re: Lots of con-current I/O = resets SATA link? (2.6.25.10)

["Jon Nelson" <jnelson-linux-raid@jamponi.net>]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Jon Nelson wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jon Nelson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Where should APIC errors be posted?
>>>> My EPoX MF570-SLI *will not boot* without noapic or nolapic.
>>>
>>> Post on linux-kernel about that one, with the dmesg from noapic mode and
>>> whatever info you can gather from when it won't boot. You might want to
>>> also
>>> test with 2.6.26-rc8 to see if the problem has already been fixed there.
>>
>> Here is the boot log from booting my EPoX MF570SLI in nolapic mode.
>> When I boot without nolapic or noapic I get as far as
>>
>> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
>>
>> I can't boot to serial right now.
>
> You are getting this as the next line after that:
>
> 0000:00:02.1 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001
>
> You might want to try upgrading your BIOS, it seems like the BIOS is not
> letting go of the USB controller when Linux tries to take over. I don't know
> if that's related to the problem though.
>
> If that doesn't work, I'd try a newer kernel version.


I completely disabled USB in the BIOS. I get a bit further, but still,
a hang. See my other msgs.


-- 
Jon