Hi all, new user here with a problem on Fedora 8. Also fc 9 but that might or might not be the same. I'm using fc 8 because some work-things want that version. Background ---------- I have a Dell Vostro 530s. This is the same as the Inspiron 530s, just the "small business" version rather than "home. It's a no-legacy machine, so SATA hard drive and DVD, no floppy, no PS/2 keyboard+mouse (USB only). The system is exactly stock except I have a different SATA drive in it. Problem ------- Various Linux distros won't boot, failing in various ways. After some coaxing, I have managed to get some working OK and thought this list- post might spark some suggestions. Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso will not boot. It starts but then hangs with the installer message "Loading ata_piix driver" on screen Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso boots and installs. But the system hangs as above when it boots Fedora-8-Live-i686.iso yay -- boots and installs. Everything seems fine. System is 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 Then I install the available updates and it hangs upon restart. System is now 2.6.25.9-40.fc8. So I use grub to try to boot the old kernel and it works fine. I notice messages under 25 (2.6.25.9) that weren't there with 23 (2.6.23.9). In particular, 25 was unhappy with two USB devices (I guess these are the keyboard and the mouse, since that's all that there is connected). Also, it doesn't like IRQ 19 and disabled it. The dmesg info under 23 suggests that's part of USB. When I was using Ubuntu on this system (which also had similar problems but was able to work) there were a number of list messages about a race condition loading USB and SATA drivers. This would fit with the symptoms I see. The solution with Ubuntu was to add "all_generic_ide" to the grub boot parameters. I tried that with fc8 but it didn't help -- maybe the option is different? So, there seems to be some change between 2.6.23 and 2.6.25 to cause this problem. I haven't filed a bugzilla bug yet but will do so when there's a bit more info about the cause. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
