Description of problem: I am getting the following error repeated infinitely on boot Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some Program, like XFree86, might be trying to access hardware directly The machine works fine with original FC3 kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.678_FC3 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the machine 2. 3. Actual results: Infinite loop, never finishes. Expected results: Boot Additional info:
Happening to me as well on all three FC3 (installed, 678, 681) kernels I've tried. Unplugging all USB devices doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm using a NForce2 chipset board from ASUS.
We're seeing this in FC2 on an Asus P4S533-MX system *without* SATA. We get VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) followed by an infinite number of atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/seri0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly. The machine isn't SMP, but oddly, if we boot the SMP kernel, we get the panic message but _not_ the atkbd.c errors. Also very disturbing: this happens with the newest kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2, but kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 works _fine_.
Hmmm. "root=/dev/hda2" instead of "root=LABEL=/" solves the problem here -- not only does the system boot, but there's no "atkbd.c: Spurious ACK" messages. Is this also the case on the FC3 systems, or is this totally unrelated?
I have "root=/dev/sda3" in my grub.conf. I'll try hde3 and see if that makes a difference.
I have the same problem. Dell Inspiron 3800 (no SMP, celeron 500, no SATA). 2.6.9-1.3 works fine, but 2.6.9-1.6 panics with the spurious ACK error. When booting with root=/dev/hda1 the problem goes away.
I've tried this with root=/dev/sda3 and root=/dev/hde3. Neither worked for me. This may, however, be related to bug 140367, which seems to be causing my drive to fail to initilize.
Over the weekend, I booted the rescue cd, removed all kernel packages, then rebooted again to the cd, chose install and had it install the kernel and write a new grub config/MBR. Since then, the problem has gone away and it boots fine, even with the 681 kernel.
kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 is working for me now.
Daniel -- shall I open a separate bug for the "root=LABEL=/" problem? To my knowledge, the latest kernel doesn't resolve that.
Might be a good idea, since your bug is probably getting lost in the noise. Dan
Okay. Issue in comment #2 filed as bug #141791.