Kernel error accessing ata drive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Every now and then, following no particular pattern that I can discern, my installation of Hardy (up-to-date) fails to boot.
The usplash bar bounces back and forth until I force a restart.
If I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, I get the following messages:
[86.772416] ATI1.00 revalidation failed (errno=-5)
[121.879145] ATI1.00 revalidation failed (errno=-5)
and then the following lines repeat forever (or as long as I've let them, which is several minutes).
[gradually incrementing number] ATI2.00 exception
[gradually incrementing number] ATI2.00 command
[gradually incrementing number] ATI2.00 status {DRDY}
This is on a brand new Dell Inspiron 530. It happens maybe one in twenty boots, and occurs before the normal lines about not finding a hibernate image.
Is this perhaps a BIOS issue, or is it more likely a kernel bug?
Thank you for taking the time to report this. I had this problem with my 530 as well (though it happened on every boot) - it is not detecting the SATA drives correctly. I solved it by adding "acpi=off noapic" to the kernel boot options. Here is how you can do it from GRUB - http:// grumpymole. blogspot. com/2007/ 05/ubuntu- how-to- edit-grub- boot-parameters .html
You will not want to do that all the time, so you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst by adding those options to where it says "# defoptions=" and "# altoptions=". Save and close the file, then run "sudo update-grub".
I will reboot into Ubuntu and post some relevant hardware and software information so developers can start fixing this.