Description of problem: System fails to boot because it can't set xfermode on sata drives. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 (i686) kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 (i686) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. 3. Actual results: Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2142_FC4)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Kernel /vmunix-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 ro root-/dev/V0/L1 acpi=off rhbg quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size 0x1b659c] initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x37e35000, 0x1bab19 bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting ata1: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata1: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Unable to find volume group "V0" ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5 ! (pid 341) mount: error 6 mounting ext3 ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 seithcroot: mount failed: 22 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 is a little different is says: ata1: failed to set xfermode, disabled ata1: failed to set xfermode, disabled Expected results: Normal boot Additional info: Working output from dmesg: Linux version 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)) #1 Wed Mar 1 23:41:37 EST 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff8000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000fb990 Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection On node 0 totalpages: 262128 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMI 2.3 present. LAPIC disabled (-2) Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/V0/L1 acpi=off rhgb quiet mapped APIC to ffffd000 (00000000) Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0414000 soft=c0413000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 2088.301 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 1033420k/1048512k available (2149k kernel code, 14352k reserved, 777k data, 196k init, 131008k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4183.53 BogoMIPS (lpj=8367074) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f3ff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Local APIC disabled by default; use 'lapic' to enable it. checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 1752k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb11, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: a000-afff MEM window: dfe00000-dfefffff PREFETCH window: bfd00000-dfcfffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1153004255.432:1): initialized highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key BD239ECA35D39A38 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered PCI: Bypassing VIA 8237 APIC De-Assert Message pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000 PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 0 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hdb: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-500M 010, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: SONY DVD RW DRU-510A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(66) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new driver libusual usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 NET: Registered protocol family 2 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1310720 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) TCP reno registered TCP bic registered Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 337k SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 1.1 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE402 bmdma 0xD800 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0xD808 irq 11 logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 85 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 88:407f ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490234752 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_via ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 88:407f ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490234752 sectors: LBA48 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_via Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 > sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005) eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0c:76:3f:4e:67 gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:00:07.1/gameport0, io 0xec00, speed 1269kHz Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at 0000:00:06.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdfdff000 bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00fffffb [init] bttv0: using tuner=-1 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found i2c_adapter i2c-1: sendbytes: error - bailout. msp3400 1-0040: chip reset failed bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... found tda9875: I/O error (read2) tda9875: no such chip at 0xb0 (dic=0xffffffff rev=0x7f) bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... found tda9887 1-0042: chip found @ 0x84 (bt848 #0 [sw]) bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 i2c_adapter i2c-1: sendbytes: error - bailout. tda9887 1-0042: i2c i/o error: rc == -14 (should be 4) ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 5, io mem 0xdfffae00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 0x0000c000 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 11, io base 0x0000c400 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000c800 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 10, io base 0x0000cc00 hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <bcollins> ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000! ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[5] MMIO=[dfffb000-dfffb7ff] Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00308d0120d76ef5] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 524280k swap on /dev/V0/L0. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:524280k ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready application mixer_applet2 uses obsolete OSS audio interface Looks very similar to Bug 193492 only acpi=off doesn't fix it and this is FC4.
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs] FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not security related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated to FC5. Please retest with Fedora Core 5. Thank you.
Not sure if I can go to FC5 and have it work since all the newer kernels have this bug. I am going to have to see if I can boot off another device and be able to use my machine. If I upgrade to FC5 and can't boot then my machine isn't any good.
I upgraded my machine to FC5 and broke it. I booted my system with linux rescue and copied over the kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm and installed it and it boots fine with that kernel. Can't boot with either of the FC5 kernels. I did find that I appear to be using dmraid. Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinux-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/V0/L1 acpi=off rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x16eb71] initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x37e3c000, 0x1b312a bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting ata1: failed to set xfermode, disabled ata2: failed to set xfermode, disabled device-mapper: dm-mirror: Device lookup failure device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: No such device or address Unable to open /dev/mapper/via_jheaibjjh - unrecognised disk label. Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Unable to find volume group "V0" Unable to access resume device (/dev/V0/L0) mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! With kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 the message is pretty much the same except for: ata1: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata2: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
Looks like there is something to do with dmraid. I recompiled the kernel with #define ATA_DEBUG in libata.h and when I ran it I expected it to fail, but it didn't. I am thinking that because of all of the debug info that it slowed things down enough for it to do some kind of recover to the raid information. Once that happened I can now boot from any of the newer kernels.