[gutsy] kernel 2.6.22-12 doesn't boot with nVidia MCP65 SATA Controller pci id [10de:045d]

[Nat Tuck]

Binary package hint: linux-image

I upgraded to the latest gutsy (Sept 25 ~6pm).
When prompted to reboot, I did so.
When the boot process tried to display the splash screen, my monitor turned off. I left it for about 20 minutes to see if it recovered, then hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot.
After removing the "quiet" and "splash" boot options in grub, I tried it again. This time it spent a bunch of time poking at the SATA controller, got confused, and bailed out to a busybox prompt.

I'm still able to boot my system using the 2.6.20 kernel. The issue with the splash screen turning the monitor off had been happening with Feisty too (requiring removing "splash" as a work around).

I've got an ABIT AN52 motherboard:
http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=AN52&fMTYPE=Socket+AM2&DEFTITLE=Y

[Nat Tuck (nat-ferrus)]

Here's a photo of the boot process, showing the SATA errors.

[Nat Tuck (nat-ferrus)]

And here's that busybox prompt it ends up with. After this it prints a couple more SATA errors on top of the prompt. Sorry for the blurry camera-phone photo, but I think it's enough to see what's going on.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please provide the full output of 'lspci -vvnn' from either Gutsy or Feisty? Thanks in advance.

[Nat Tuck (nat-ferrus)]

Here's the output of lspci --vvnn from gutsy + linux 2.6.20.

[John Andrunas (john-andrunas)]

This appears to be fixed in 2.6.22-13-generic

[Nat Tuck (nat-ferrus)]

The bug does appear to be fixed in 2.6.22-13-generic.

[Pēteris Krišjānis (pecisk-gmail)]

Maybe it's just a guess, but there where similar regressions for HighPoint controllers in 2.6.22, which where fixed in 2.6.23. Maybe you should try to compile 2.6.23 Debian style (with deb generation) and then report back if it works or not.

First useful Google hit was http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian_etch. Propably there are some doc on Ubuntu wiki too for this.

[Pēteris Krišjānis (pecisk-gmail)]

P.S. Splash turning monitor off means it has wrongly detected resolution for it. It has nothing to do with SATA controller, just for clarification.

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