5.2-BETA boot failure

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:08:37PM -0800, Jerry Keefe wrote:
> I tried upgrading a Dell Optiplex GXa from Release 5.1p10 to the 5.2
> Beta using the mini-install CD.  The system hangs in the boot loader. 
> This problem doesn't happen with the Release 5.1 CDs.
> 
> I then tried upgrading from source after getting CURRENT as of
> 11/29/2003, and was able to build and install the new GENERIC kernel.
> Upon reboot, the system hangs in the same way as when booting from the
> mini-install CD.
> 
> The only thing unusual about this machine is that the onboard EIDE
> controller is disabled, and a PCI EIDE controller has been added.
> 
> The system doesn't seem to get far enough to get a dmesg output or a
> backtrace out of this, but here's a transcript of the last few lines if
> it helps.
> 
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> ata2-master: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ata2-master: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ata2-slave: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ata2-slave: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ad4: WARNING - SET_MULTI recovered from missing interrupt
> GEOM: create disk ad4 dp=0xc23ce960
> ad4: 19541MB <Maxtor 52049U4> [38703/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66
> ad5: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ad5: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ad5: WARNING - SET_MULTI recovered from missing interrupt
> GEOM: create disk ad5 dp=0xc23ce660
> ad5: 4121MB <Maxtor 90432D2> [8374/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33
> ata3-master: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt
> ata3: resetting devices ..
> 
> machine is hung at this point.

I see a similar behaviour since somwhere shortly before 5.2-BETA on my 
HP OmniBook 500: If I try to boot with the base station attached (which 
includes an additional ATA Channel with an CDROM Drive attached), I see 
the same messages as you see for ata3-master (which is exactly where the 
CDROM resides). If I remove the CDROM from the base station, so the ATA 
channel is still there, but with no devices, I have no problems booting. 
I don't have other devices (like harddisks) to test this behaviour with.

Booting with the CDROM worked until well "a few weeks ago", I cannot 
tell exactly, because I don't use it very often.

- Oliver

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