Description of problem: LiveCD cannot boot from Image, can only be run if run from RAM. If run from RAM, install completes without a hitch, but on first boot the following error occurs (either after installing or trying to boot the LiveCD from Image): It will start up, and start a bunch of services, but will fail with I/O errors, seemingly related to the new ata subsystem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.20-1.3104.fc7 How reproducible: Fedora 7 Hardware: Samsung SP0802N (ATA133 IDE drive, currently the slave drive) Asus P4S800D Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz HT (prescott) 1GB memory Steps to Reproduce: 1) Insert Fedora 7Test4 KDE liveCD, try to boot from image 2) Insert Fedora 7test4 KDE liveCD, boot from RAM, install, reboot, and boot Actual results: ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 ata1.01: cmd ca/00:08:1F:22:4c/00:00:00:00:00/f0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.01: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O Error, err_mask=0x40) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs (last 3 lines repeated a few times) then a bunch of end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector (Buncha sectors). Expected results: Booting. Additional info:
Created attachment 153722 [details] lspci output
Benn, can you try (or, if you already tried, what is the result?) to boot and install the final version of F7?
It still will not work with the KDE liveCD (final F7) but I am now trying the DVD to see if that works. For what it's worth, it hangs after trying to start sendmail, although from looking at the errors that looks unrelated.
F7-DVD installs fine (I disabled sendmail, FWIW), there was a weird keyboard problem running firstboot, and once I resolved that I couldn't log in -- X seemed to hang after RHGB. I really wish I could get F7 working (I haven't had a working fedora install on this desktop since FC5) but I'm just going to have to go with another distro at the moment just so I can get work done. I'll be happy to try any liveCD fixes though.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp