Kovid Goyal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems booting from a SATA disk with 2.6.19. > Grub loads fine, but when the kernel boots, it *sometimes* ends up with > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5" or unknown-block(0,0). > > This issue appears to be identical with the one reported in > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/19/327 except that 2.6.19 did not fix it for me. > In fact, it made it worse. The timeouts reported in that thread are still > present and with 2.6.19 the fraction of unsuccessful boots has increased from > 30% to 80%. I often have to reboot my machine 3 times in a row before it > succeeds. I have tried both vanilla 2.6.19 and gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r1 > > To summarize: My machine stalls for nearly a minute on all boots and the root > filesystem fails to mount on 80% of the boots. This problem first manifested > itself when I switched to 2.6.18 and has become worse with 2.6.19. > > The controller: > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA > Controller (rev 03) > > I don't know how to get the logs from an unsuccessful boot. Here is > an extract from the logs of a successful boot (in which the timeout is > present): Does goving back to 2.6.17 fix the problem? Also, please report the result of 'smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdX' where sdX is the problematic drive. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
