I have a FILM of the process of booting etc

I am unable to explain it as I am new to UBUNTU and Linux 99%.

But I can upload the movie to my site if you like.

it works 100% fine after I type the "exit"

it boots up every day no problem.


All I know my friend asked me to disconnect a small 4GB SCSI HDD that we  had 
in there
we used that PC before to run a PBX Asterisk phone server ( if I say that right)
I am only an end user. 


Victor

----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:18:30 PM
Subject: [Bug 106864] Re: Feisty boot fail "can't access tty" IDE SATA problem

I tried booting with *both* hard drives disconnected, to test whether
the (software) RAID filesystem present on them was causing my problems.
The first time I tried it (no break=top, no "modprobe piix"), it booted
up!  Always skeptical, I tried it again, and it failed, just as before.
I did try the piix thing, but to no avail.

So, from this I deduce:

1.  It's not md0 (RAID) related, and in fact it's not related to disk contents 
at all.
2.  It's intermittent.  Either it's a race, or possibly its affected by 
previous boots of the machine (i.e., hardware state retained across warm 
boots).  Pretty sure it's a race.
3.  At least on my machine, the piix fix is not absolutely required for a 
successful boot, as I've seen it work without.

I *did* see some ATA error messages in the log, during the failed
attempts.  Something about bad status (0x7F).  I suppose that that could
just be a symptom of the disconnected hds, or perhaps a separate issue
that the piix thing would fix.

Notably, there seems to be a pause of maybe 20 seconds or so while it
seems to be looking for devices.  I'm guessing that this is a period
during which the SCSI controller is looking for devices, but I'm not
sure that this is so.

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