Cannot boot Hardy.

[Viesturs Zariņš]

I upgraded to the just released kubuntu, using the Update Manager and got an unbootable system.
So I put in the ubuntu install CD to try boot from it.
The install CD was unable to boot too.

Everything worked fine with Gutsy.

In both cases the kernel boot process stops on some sata problem.
I'll try to boot again and write down the exact error messages.

[Viesturs Zariņš (viesturs-zarins)]

It turns out, if you wait long enough, a recovery shell is presented.

So I dumped contents of dmesg to an USB flash drive.
See the attachment. Note that it contains also messeges for plugging the USB drive in.

Looks like the problem is indeed with SATA devices.
I already had similar problem with Gentoo 2008.1 beta live-CD. Somebody there told me that my hardware does not have AHCI, but kernel is trying to use it.

PS: Could somebody explain why-oh-why I can only mount ntfs volumes from the recovery shell (only mount.mtfs, mount.mtfs-3g and mount.fuse are present)?

[Mads Peter Rommedahl (lhademmor)]

Assigning this to the kernel package - it sounds like it could be related to the kernel, albeit it sounds a bit strange...

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Viesturs,

Care to try booting with the "all_generic_ide" boot option and see if that helps? Thanks.

[Viesturs Zariņš (viesturs-zarins)]

Hi Leann,

Thanks for the reply. It works fine with "all_generic_ide" :)

Attaching dmesg (booting Hardy install cd live session):

[Kevin_b_er (ktbvz2)]

This is another duplicate of 190492. irqpoll or pci=nomsi may fix your problem as well.