Description of problem: Latest fedora kernels panic during boot from SATA drive connected to SB600 telling that they are not able to find any volume groups. On older kernels I was able to make them boot by reducing memory size below 4 GB, on latest kernels this trick does not work. Once I installed a Sil SATA controller and connected hard disk to it everything boots up correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.x86_64 kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7.x86_64 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2934.fc7.x86_64 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2931.fc7.x86_64 Probably other latest kernels also. Also some other latest kernels. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect HDD to SB600 SATA controller. 2. Try to boot up from it. Actual results: Kernel panic - unable to find volume groups. Additional info: GIGABYTE GA-MA69VM-S2 motherboard (tried on BIOS Rev. F2, F4, F6a, others not tested) I'm sure the problem lies somewhere in AMD SB600 controller used by this board as system works perfectly once hdd is connected to a Sil SATA controller plugged in as a PCI card. I'm ready to provide any additional information, so tell me what else should I post. Thank you, Roman
Changing component to 'kernel', as it is reported to happen on non-xen kernel.
Hello, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can. There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Could you tell me if you are still having problems with the latest kernel? If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no additional information lodged.
Hello, I'm not sure about fedora 7 kernels, but I installed fedora 8 recently and it works fine. I guess this bug can be closed but I can check it with fedora 7 if required. Thank you, Roman
Hi Roman, I will close this as NEXTRELEASE but if you are able to test that would be greatly appreciated. If it exists in F7 (which I doubt) then please re-open. Thanks again for filing the original bug.