Hard drive not detected on AMD SB700

[Cameron Harris]

When I boot up on the 2.6.27-2 server kernel (Intrepid), my hard drive is not detected. It works fine with the 2.6.24-16 server kernel.

Upon booting 2.6.27-2, I get the following message (at the initrd stage still, I think):
Gave up waiting for root device
  [....]
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/658bcd8c... does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

There is indeed no /dev/disk directory.

At the shell, /proc/modules lists the following modules:
sg, sr_mod, cdrom, ohci1394, ieee1394, pata_atiixp, ehci_hcd, ahci, ata_generic, pata_acpi, libata, usbcore, r8169, scsi_mod, dock, thermal, processor, fan, fbcon,tileblit, font, bitblit, softcursor, cn, fuse

According to my motherboard manual, this is the hardware:
North bridge: AMD 780G
South Bridge: AMD SB700
I/O Controller: iTE IT8718

When booting 2.6.24-16, I get the following details:

cameron@Media:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
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
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

cameron@Media:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 325768 16
af_packet 34440 2
iptable_filter 11776 0
ip_tables 31720 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 30728 1 ip_tables
sbp2 34440 0
parport_pc 48296 1
lp 22084 0
parport 51340 2 parport_pc,lp
loop 28676 0
sr_mod 27300 0
cdrom 48680 1 sr_mod
snd_hda_intel 447576 0
k8temp 14848 0
snd_pcm 99336 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 35080 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 20368 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 19720 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 78024 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
atiixp 13840 0 [permanent]
i2c_piix4 18316 0
wmi_acer 18244 0
pcspkr 12160 0
evdev 22144 0
ide_core 143768 1 atiixp
button 18080 0
shpchp 45340 0
pci_hotplug 41776 1 shpchp
i2c_core 35712 1 i2c_piix4
soundcore 17568 1 snd
ext3 156176 3
jbd 64168 1 ext3
mbcache 18560 1 ext3
sg 48920 0
sd_mod 40448 7
pata_atiixp 17664 0
ata_generic 17156 0
floppy 76264 0
ohci1394 43700 0
ieee1394 114008 2 sbp2,ohci1394
pata_acpi 17024 0
ahci 40196 5
ehci_hcd 49164 0
ohci_hcd 34692 0
libata 183472 4 pata_atiixp,ata_generic,pata_acpi,ahci
r8169 43780 0
scsi_mod 185528 5 sbp2,sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,libata
usbcore 176816 3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
thermal 26912 0
processor 49608 1 thermal
fan 13960 0
fbcon 53504 0
tileblit 11264 1 fbcon
font 17280 1 fbcon
bitblit 14592 1 fbcon
softcursor 10880 1 bitblit
fuse 63280 1

Thanks. If you need any other details, I can try to provide them.

[Gunni (fgunni)]

I think i can confirm this, but maybe a different bug:
I tried to install intrepid alpha 5 on a new Mainboard Asus M3A-H/HDMI and on installations cdrom detection it wont find the cdrom anymore, so its uninstallable on this pc (from cdrom)

[Cameron Harris (cameronh)]

Yeah I forgot to mention, I get an error when the intrepid alpha 5 installer tries to detect my hard drive too. It all worked fine with hardy.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. I'm marking this report as a duplicate of bug 267634 because this is the same RD700 chipset series and same error. The other bug contains the faulty commit.

Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.