On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Rob Quin wrote: > I downloaded debian-LennyBeta2-amd64-netinst.iso > When I booted with that it hung for several minutes before the familiar > ncurses menus appeared. Then it did the same as before. > > Here are the hardware-summary and syslog from that install attempt.
Thanks. The syslog clearly shows your NIC and IDE controller being recognized. It also clearly shows a problem with your SATA controller. This looks to be a kernel problem. Here's the relevant part: kernel: ahci 0000:00:09.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl IDE mode kernel: ahci 0000:00:09.0: flags: 64bit ncq sntf led clo pmp pio kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:09.0 to 64 kernel: scsi0 : ahci kernel: scsi1 : ahci kernel: scsi2 : ahci kernel: scsi3 : ahci kernel: scsi4 : ahci kernel: scsi5 : ahci kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar [EMAIL PROTECTED] port 0xfe02a100 irq 1275 kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar [EMAIL PROTECTED] port 0xfe02a180 irq 1275 kernel: ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar [EMAIL PROTECTED] port 0xfe02a200 irq 1275 kernel: ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar [EMAIL PROTECTED] port 0xfe02a280 irq 1275 kernel: ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar [EMAIL PROTECTED] port 0xfe02a300 irq 1275 kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar [EMAIL PROTECTED] port 0xfe02a380 irq 1275 Good, the controller is recognized. kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) kernel: ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) kernel: ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) kernel: ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) kernel: ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) kernel: ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) kernel: ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) kernel: ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) kernel: ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) kernel: ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) These lines seem to indicate that a disk (or DVD) is connected to link 1, but actually talking to it fails. kernel: ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) kernel: ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) kernel: ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) kernel: ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) kernel: ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs kernel: ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) kernel: ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) kernel: ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) kernel: ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs kernel: ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) kernel: ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) kernel: ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) kernel: ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs kernel: ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Same for link 3 as for link 1. kernel: ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) kernel: ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) kernel: ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Googling leads me to this thread on the kernel mailing list: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/14/467 There are two people there reporting the same problem, though possibly with other chipsets. In both cases a BIOS upgrade solved the problem. However, as you can see the kernel developer would be interested to find out the actual cause of the problem and there are two kernel boot options that could be tried first. Can you try booting the installer [1] with (separately): - pci=nomsi - irqpoll And see if that makes a difference? Please check the syslog or output of dmesg for changes in the above. Also, please check if a BIOS update is available but, unless you're in a hurry, don't apply it yet as this may still be of interest to the upstream kernel people, although it's also possible that the problem has been solved in the mean time in 2.6.25. Cheers, FJP [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-screen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
