Hello. I am working on a computer at work. It is a multi OS system primarily using Red Hat 5 Enterprise. Just for reference I am new user to Linux. So far their version of Red Hat 5 is on both of my computers which have the same behavior. We are having problems with the ata probing at boot up of Red Hat. After a day of searching on Google and such I noticed many others have had this problem but for different Linux OSs. Any help on removing this annoying ata trait is welcomed. I will print out the system information below. [root@localhost ~]# lshal | grep -i bios smbios.chassis.type = 'Mini Tower' (string) smbios.chassis.manufacturer = 'Dell Inc.' (string) smbios.system.uuid = '44454C4C-5600-1032-804B-C7C04F504331' (string) smbios.system.serial = 'GV2KPC1' (string) smbios.system.version = 'Not Specified' (string) smbios.system.product = 'OptiPlex 745' (string) smbios.system.manufacturer = 'Dell Inc.' (string) smbios.bios.release_date = '12/04/2006' (string) smbios.bios.version = '2.1.0' (string) smbios.bios.vendor = 'Dell Inc.' (string) [root@localhost ~]# uname -r 2.6.18-8.el5 The system uses Grub to pick which OS to start up. Here is the menu.lstfile for Grub for Red Hat's section. #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (2.6.18-8.el5) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb # kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img After a day of web searching I noticed an update came out a few months ago for the kernel of FC6 and other systems that got rid of this error. The version of my kernel is above, should I update it to solve this issue? Is there an update for Red Hat's kernel yet? Many mentioned adding the command "options ata_piix noprobe" to modprobe.conf but I was hesitant to do this because I saw many had major problems after they did this. Also I discovered this morning that the hard drive is a sata which will be affected by this change...I think. Anyone think adding this option is a good idea? Lastly I found a patch to the libata at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13408/ which should solve the problem according to the message author. But I can not find the libata or the driver files/folder... so I have yet to look at those files directly. Has anyone tried this approach? Do you know if it would work? I know this ata problem is not a big deal but it is annoying, especially on a system that we will be switching back and forth on OSs to test new software. Plus the boss is complaining so I need to get rid of it ;). So any help or guidance toward a solution is welcomed. Thanks for your time. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
