Fails to insert nVidia SATA disk modules on boot causing boot fail

[Tore S Bekkedal]

Upgrading from gutsy to hardy, the new kernel image fails to boot. After the 180 second delay, /scripts/local drops me to the busybox shell. If I modprobe sd_mod and sata_nv and then logout, startup proceeds normally.

Previous kernels (For one example, linux-image-2.6.22-14-386 version 2.6.22-14.47) do not have this issue.

Please let me know if there is any other info you would like, or if there's anything you want me to try out. For realtime debugging I'm toresbe on IRC.

linux-image-2.6.24-8-386 version: 2.6.24-8.14

lspci:
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)

Thanks for the great work you do,
Tore Sinding Bekkedal

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Tore,

Care to test the latest 2.6.24-10 version. Also curious if you have tried the -generic flavor rather than the -386 flavor which you seem to be using. Thanks.

[Tore S Bekkedal (toresbe)]

I apologize for being (very!) late in replying - I seem to have forgotten to reply to you. Yes, this fixed the problem entirely, thank you very much.

[Tore S Bekkedal (toresbe)]

Upgrade to 2.6.24-10 fixed the problem.