Live CD fails to boot, stops when detecting ata

[Joe Bowser]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-live

I try to boot off of Herd 1 of Feisty Fawn, and right after I select Start and Install Ubuntu, I get to the Ubuntu spash screen, then it sends me to busybox saying:

ata3: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)

This also happens when I load in Safe Graphics mode, as well as when I check the CD integrity. Edgy Eft worked fine when I booted it off CD, so I believe that it's new to Feisty Fawn.

[Joe Bowser (infil00p)]

Tested against my laptop (Dell Inspiron 5150), and it boots fine. Could be related to the RAID functionality that I'm not using on the Motherboard.

[Ken Weiner (kweiner)]

This happens to me too with Herd 1 of Feisty Fawn on a Dell Dimension 9200c desktop with an Intel G965 chipset and a DVD/CDROM Drive: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6650A.

After being dropped to the Busy Box shell, I see the following messages:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0x80)
ata2: COMRESET failed (device not ready)
ata2.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x101)

Note: I am able to boot from the Dapper Live CD on the same computer, but I had a similar problem with the Edgy Live CD. I was hoping Feisty Fawn was going to work.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Herd 2 of Feisty Fawn is now available could you try booting from it and report back if you have the same error?

[Ken Weiner (kweiner)]

I tried Herd 2 of Feisty Fawn. Again, I am dropped to the Busy Box shell, and I see the following message:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

If I switch to the first tty, I see

Loading, please wait...
cp: unable to open '/root/var/log/': No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init

[Ken Weiner (kweiner)]

I just discovered something important. In my BIOS, if I change the "SATA Operation" setting from the default which is AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) to ATA, I am able to boot from Feisty Fawn Herd 1 and 2 just fine! I don't really know what SATA Operation means and whether or not Ubuntu should boot correctly if it is set to AHCI.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Thanks Ken.

Most likely this is fixed in latest kernels, so please test again. Marking as fix-released.