Gigabyte 965G-DS3 fails with PCI MMCONFIG access method

[Ampinder]

During the installation of feisty-desktop-i386 install, I got a error that pop-up on the screen that was saying :
The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of IDE4 master (hdg) failed

I clicked OK and the installation stopped right there.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

According to syslog, hdg is broken. Please make sure this is (or not) the case testing the hd on another machine or swap it with another disk on the same system.

Fabio

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

This looks like a dead disk, please swap that disk with another and attempt to reproduce, please.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Marking as such. It's definitely hardware. Check drive and cables.

Thanks

[Ampinder (ajaysingh99)]

I have changed the hard drive and I'm still getting the same error message:
The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of IDE4 master (hdg) failed

This happens when I have entered all the necessary information and I just have to press the "Install" button.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

what about cables

[Ampinder (ajaysingh99)]

Hi,
       I have changed the cables also and I'm still getting the same error message.

Thanks

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Could you please try with the following appended to the kernel command line (attach a dmesg please):

pci=nommconf

[Ampinder (ajaysingh99)]

Hi,
    I have used "pci=nommconf" and the installation was done completely.

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

What does that mean? You no longer had issues writing to the disk?

[Ampinder (ajaysingh99)]

Yes, I have entered your command and the installation work until the end. I was able to write on the disk, without having any error message getting displayed on the screen.

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Ok. Thanks for testing! I'll try to come up with a more permanent solution.

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Could you please post the "sudo dmidecode" output as an attachment? I will probably need it to fix this permanently on this board.

Thanks!
  Kyle

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

I know you guys are busy, so this is a total "wishlist" thing to ask you to do.

If on some of these boxes with strange failures you could test
http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org/

That would be great and give us a much better understanding if it is the kernel which is broken, or the BIOS/ACPI/etc. of the board in question.

[Ampinder (ajaysingh99)]

Hi,
    As you requested Kyle, I'm adding the "dmidecode" output for you. I will shortly try the test kit that you have mentioned (http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org/).

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Thanks very much, Ampinder!

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Working on it.

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Can you confirm that the "Subject" has the right board name?

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

Similar http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7683 ?

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Bringing milestone forward.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Moving milestone forward

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

Kyle, the subject has the right board board name which is specifically GA-965G-DS3.

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Ok. Decided just to disable it by default. We can also DMI blacklist (or whitelist) MMCONFIG on different boards based on HW Certification testing.