Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 490547
Boot is failing due to harddisk error: SRST failed (errno=-16)
Last modified: 2010-06-28 07:29:24 EDT
Description of problem: When booting with the latest FC9 kernel (2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686), one get stuck right after "Red Hat nash" with the error message: ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) repeated 4 times A similar situation appears when booting with the new Fedora 10 DVD, no harddisk seems to be detected by the installation process. The same setup has been working flawless with Fedora 8 (2.6.26.8-57.fc8), moreover it also work as intended with the Fedora 9 kernel delivered on the DVD (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686) Hardware setup -------------- The harddisk is a Western Digital, WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0. The motherboard is a "XFX Nforce 680i LT", so the sata_nv driver is used. Worth observing, is that I have another computer with the same harddisk, but different motherboard (ATI), there does the latest FC9 kernel (2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686) work. I will attach lspci and lshal output.
Created attachment 335442 [details] lshal output
Created attachment 335443 [details] lspci output
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I just downloaded the Fedora 11, again no harddisks are detected, i.e. the problem remains, therefore reopening the bug. This issue is quite problematic, since one are stuck in FC9 with no possibility to upgrade.
Try booting with the added kernel option 'ignore_loglevel' and see what additional message are produced when it hangs.
Thanks for the suggestion; I got quite a few extra error messages (not clear to me how to get these ones saved when the boot fails, so I have typed some of them in manually): ata2: link online but device misclassified, retrying ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19) ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) Looking around a bit, I found among other bugs the following: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/220706 Some of the comments in that bug suggested that it is a cabling issue. Indeed, when reconnecting the cables to the hard drive, I actually managed to boot a 2.6.27 kernels (and later). This indicates that I have some hardware problem, I guess. Observe however that the 2.6.26 always booted, so something has become more sensitive. A weird thing is that I have had to take out and reinsert the SATA cable each day when restarting the computer in order to get it work. I guess this indicates that something really is on the limit, and that the code in 2.6.26 was more forgiving compared to later kernels.
I have got PATA Seagate 120 Gb disk at Russian Corner "Unona" for approx $10. All labels were at the places. So I guess my new disk was not used for forwarding any nails or so. No one of my systems does find this disk. Nevertheless Mandriva 2010 in safe mode, and Fedora 10, and some other Linux systems really observe the disk. But they never open it, writing that same messages that reported mr Johan Ivarsson. I know that there is a table of disk sectors or bytes or so and it is enough to edit it correctly and the disk can be saved. But I do not know how I can get incide it.
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Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.