Bug 504937
| Summary: | Install in AHCI mode; won't boot unless change to IDE/compatibility mode | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Spencer Brown <spencer> |
| Component: | mkinitrd | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | hdegoede, katzj, pjones, rmaximo, vanmeeuwen+fedora, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-06-22 20:36:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Spencer Brown
2009-06-10 04:35:53 UTC
You had to disconnect the drives before it would let you in the BIOS ? Did you try power cycling the machine ? Also did you ever get the bootloader press a key for menu 3-2-1 countdown ? > You had to disconnect the drives before it would let you in the BIOS ? I was astonished at this but it absolutely was the case. I don't imagine this is a Linux issue, probably some BIOS weirdness. > Did you try power cycling the machine ? Yes of course. I tried everything I could think of. I power cycled it, I pulled the power cord and cycled it again, I hit the reset button, I removed all extraneous connections (LAN, etc.), I tried holding down the F2 key during boot, I tried hitting the F2 key intermittently during boot, etc. etc. Nothing worked. > Also did you ever get the bootloader press a key for menu 3-2-1 countdown ? No. It seemed like it never even got to the boot sequence out of the BIOS. Normally as it goes through the boot sequence the BIOS puts up two-letter codes in the lower right corner of the screen, to denote where it is in the sequence. I saw none of those. It just went straight to a black screen and a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. Really weird. Can you please contact Intel about this, since you never even got to the BIOS POST this feels like a hardware issue (or bad hardware OS interaction) to me. Intel is pretty serious about Linux support these days. If you don't manage to get a serious response from them let me know and I'll see if I can get some input from them. Yes I will follow up with Intel. Is there still a Fedora 11 problem here? Isn't it failing to detect my AHCI and installing IDE drivers instead? (In reply to comment #4) > Yes I will follow up with Intel. > > Is there still a Fedora 11 problem here? Isn't it failing to detect my AHCI > and installing IDE drivers instead? There might be, but in my experience F-11 will happily work with either native SATA or AHCI driver. I've toggled AHCI on/off in the BIOS on multiple machines and F-11 just keeps on working both when going from no AHCI -> AHCI and the otherway around. So given that with AHCI left enabled the system wouldn't even get to POST, until we know more there is nothing we can do. RESOLVED. I cannot reproduce the behavior now and Fedora 11 is installing fine. I fixed it by (1) upleveling the BIOS and (2) deleting all partitions on the hard drive and re-doing the install. It's one of two things that caused this. 1) Downlevel BIOS which I upgraded. (I don't think it's this.,) 2) I had the boot drive on SATA port 1. I switched it to SATA port 0. Or it could have just been something transient. |