intrepid boot hangs with ich4 fujitsu siemens box with workaround

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer]

Hardy kernels and selfcompiled 2.6.27-rc kernels with disabled libata and enabled ide drivers booted on this year 2002 (i believe) motherboard with ich4 chipset and celeron 2.4 GHz cpu.

Sorry at the moment i am not able to give more information about the motherboard (later at home).

I also found a way to use the intrepid linux packages:
adding a line with the word "ata_piix" to /etc/modules and then updating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-5-generic seems to influence hardware detection in the right way.

I guess booting a live cd would have hanged on this box, as it uses the same generic kernel and initramfs?

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

This bug was reported in the Intrepid development cycle; removing regression-potential and marking as regression-release.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Fritz,

Sorry for the extremely delayed response here. Can you confirm if this issue remains with the more recent 9.04 Jaunty release - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . It contains a newer 2.6.28 based kernel. Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer (fritz-heinrichmeyer)]

i commented out the line with ata_piix in /etc/modules, deinstalled and reinstalled the jaunty generic kernel rebooted and it worked. So i am confident that the bug went away. I intent to give away the box next weeks so no more further tests are possible.

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer (fritz-heinrichmeyer)]

PS: uname -a gives now:
Linux tux 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:27:06 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Setting this to Fix Released against Jaunty. Thanks.