Comment 72 for bug 148466

Description of problem:
The F8 rescue CD won't boot on our Dell PowerEdge 2500. This machine is
currently running F7 fine, but can't now be upgraded to F8.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F8 release kernel.

How reproducible:
Always (on this hardware).

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot the rescue CD.
2.Select NFS install
3.Start installation

Actual results:
Installation hangs indefinitely. Console shows a loop of ATA errors.

Additional info:
The errors produced include:

SQASHFS error sb_bread failed reading block 0x1736
SQASHFS error unable to read page, block 0x2266
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9070
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: cmd a0/01 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0/a0 tag 0

upon rebooting the umount of /dev/loop throws an error.

I noticed that someone else with the same model of server reported the same
problem on the Ubuntu forums, but no progress has been made on that bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/dru/+bug/148466

That bug report has a better log capture than I do. The errors and symptoms
look exactly the same.