Bug 752287

Summary: System extremely slow to boot with grub2
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Rowe <bart>
Component: grub2Assignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 16CC: dennis, mads, pjones
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Daniel Rowe 2011-11-09 03:26:39 UTC
Created attachment 532438 [details]
dmesg

Description of problem:

System extremely slow to boot with grub2. I'm talking go and make a coffee slow. Takes at least 3 or four mins to get pass the loading inital RAM disk.

Notice in dmesg after boot lot of this:
 
         72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 
[   37.575900]         05 c6 bd f8 
[   37.575904] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]  Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[   37.575909] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 05 c6 bd c0 00 00 08 00
[   37.575917] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96910784
[   37.575923] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]  Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[   37.575927] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]  Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor]
[   37.575931] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[   37.575934]         72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 
[   37.575943]         05 c6 bd f8 

Note this is a SSD disk with the system is installed on and hence the boot disk. This disk is connect to the Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller on the motherboard.

Note there are no issue with this disk itself, SMART data show all good. If I go back to Fedora 15 I have no slow boot issues.

Once the system is booted the sda's performance seems fine and normal.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Yum update have been run and the system is completely up to date.

How reproducible:

Every time.

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Actual results:

Very slow boot.

Expected results:

Normal operation.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Rowe 2011-11-09 03:28:42 UTC
Created attachment 532439 [details]
hdparm -I /dev/sda

Comment 2 Daniel Rowe 2011-11-09 03:30:35 UTC
Created attachment 532441 [details]
lspci -v

Comment 3 Daniel Rowe 2011-11-09 03:32:00 UTC
Motherboard: P6X58D PREMIUM

Comment 4 Mads Kiilerich 2011-11-09 18:42:53 UTC
Everything indicates that this is a hardware error.

How do you go back to F15? Are you dual-booting in some way or reinstalling the system from scratch?

Comment 5 Daniel Rowe 2011-11-10 04:21:29 UTC
Using Clonezilla. Always take an image of the system disk before I do a fresh install. Then take an image of the new install. Allows me to easily roll back and test Issues.

I updated the firmware of the HDD and it has fix the issue.

So this was a Super Talent STT_FTM64GX25H SSD on the original firmware.

Updated to FwRev=2142 and all issue gone. Something in Grub 2 and or the newer kernel did not like the firmware in the SSD. Probably bugs in it SSD firmware.

Closing this as not a bug.