I get the following error when try to boot one lenovo 3000 N1000 laptop:- When trying to boot from hard disk:- Error 21: Selected disk does not exist...
When booting from live cd. This is the output from dmesg. ... ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/66:PIO4 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata1: soft resetting link ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata1: soft resetting link ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata1: soft resetting link ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO4 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata1: soft resetting link ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata1: soft resetting link ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata1: soft resetting link ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata1: reset failed, giving up ata1.00: disabled ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata1: EH complete ... Is it the problem with Disk? I have tried with different kernel parameter like:- noapic , irqpool ,libata.dma=0 . But not succeeded . And during boot from live cd noise(like droping plastic ball on floor) is coming. Anybody can help? Thanks in advanced. -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654