Hardy upgrade on Dell Insipiron 530 fails badly
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Bug Description
!! Upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy on Dell Inspiron 530 just failed badly. Apparently stopping at some ata related error.
After the first reboot the system stalls, Alt-F1, shows only
[ 88.206802]ata1.00 revalidation failed(errno=-5)
Having no success forcing reboot again, I tried to fall back to previous kernel but NVidia drivers were not engaged and the hardware drivers panel falls over silently so the resolution is very badly off/unusable.
Trying recovery mode on the new kernal doesn't work but provides a little more.. the ata related ones start
qc timeout(cmd 0x27)
failed to recover some devices
failed to read native max address err_mask=0x4
argh.. I'm going to have to reinstall Gutsy and stick with it from fear of this happening again.
I should maybe have also suggested that I can't get to a command line with the new kernel as it's stalling partway through the initial loading.
I'm expecting using the old kernel is atm a mix of alsorts of old and partly new, and certainly it's running so slow I think it must be confused.
On the plus side the upgrade of my laptop went fine :) ho hum