From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: System works just fine with original kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp. But after upgrades to other kernels up to and including 2.6.10-1.737FC3smp system locks up at boot. Can still get normal operation with original kernel though. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC3 2.Upgrade to latest software including kernel 3.Boot system from new kernel Actual Results: It goes through boot up and briefly displays the login screen, then infinately scrolls the following: "HDD: Status Error Status = 0x01 { Error }" and "HDD: Status Error error = 0x04Aborted Command." Keyboard is useless at this point and system must be restarted. Expected Results: Normal login screen should be displayed. Additional info: System is an Intel OR840 Workstation board with two 800Mhz PIIIs, 512k ram consisting of four 128k PC800 ECC modules. HDD is a WDD 1600. I tried a complete reinstall with Selinux disabled, but problem is the same I tried the 2.6.10-1.737FC3 uniprocessor kernel and immediately got a kernel panic. I have also tried to roll my own 2.6.10 smp kernel with a known good config, but it still gives me the scrolling error. I even tried my kernel with the -AC8 patch but it didn't change anything either, I still get the same scrolling error message.
Update to latest kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp still has problem. Uniprocessor kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 still kernel panics. It scrolls too much by for me to catch, but the last lines are: Error: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 <0> Kernel panic -not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Update to latest kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp still has problem. Uniprocessor kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 still kernel panics. It scrolls too much by for me to catch, but the last lines are: Error: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 <0> Kernel panic -not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Created attachment 109930 [details] Unsuccessful and successful boots from /var/log/messages I erased /var/log/messages and rebooted using kernel 2.6.10-1.747FC3smp, then rebooted using kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp. So this log contains both a failed boot using latest kernel and a successful boot using original kernel
Yoicks! a clue (maybe). Probably should have done this first, but I'm still struggling at the bottom of the learning curve. I went over /var/log/messages and noted that both kernels register a slave MATSHITA CD-RW CW-7585 ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM Drive. There is ONLY ONE CD drive on this computer, and neither IDE bus has a slave device attached, it should only have HDA and HDC! Moreover, kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp simply ignores it with "ide probe: ignoring undecoded slave." Kernel 2.6.10-1.747FC3smp seems to try and configure the non-existant drive, starting with "set_drive_speed_status: status=0x01 ( Error )." Hope this helps.
Finally had time to play with this some more, opened the case and pulled the ribbon cable off the CD drive and rebooted using new kernels. Viola! Boots fine, no error messages in log. Looks like it may be some issue between the 2.6 kernel and this particular type of drive. I guess the next step is to aquire another CD drive and try it.
Just got a cheap no-name 52x cd drive and installed it. Everything works fine. /var/log doesn't have any error messages for the new drive, and it reads data and audio cds fine.