Bug 12962 (failboot-gigabyte) - Kernel fails to boot on 2.6.28.3+
Summary: Kernel fails to boot on 2.6.28.3+
Status: CLOSED OBSOLETE
Alias: failboot-gigabyte
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware
Classification: Unclassified
Component: x86-64 (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 blocking
Assignee: platform_x86_64@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2009-03-28 20:01 UTC by Dan Dart
Modified: 2012-05-30 15:02 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6.28.3
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Regression: Yes
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Description Dan Dart 2009-03-28 20:01:09 UTC 
Ubuntu  8.10 kernel (2.6.27) succeeds booting but only on hpet=disable

Self-compiled kernels up to 2.6.28.2 succeed to boot  on ubuntu 8.04 (no initrd)

Anything higher (2.6.28.3+ on Ubuntu 8.10) fails to boot with messages about not being able to find the hard disk, and drops to a prompt (evidently the hard disk was found but appears in /sys as an error instead of /dev)

2.6.29 on Ubuntu 8.10 fails to boot, and lists the disks that the ATA system found (includes hard disk) but gets to a kernel panic because it cannot find (0,0) or the sda device node. 

Ubuntu 9.04 kernel (2.6.28.8 based) fails to boot, dropping to busybox prompt, even with acpi=off, nolapic, noapic, hpet=disable, edd=on, "verbose" replacing "splash silent" options.  and on expert mode, the messages when finding an ext3 filesystem loop over and over before it gets to busybox.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2, SATA300 jumper on Maxtor disk removed.

AMD Athlon X2 4800+ 2.5GHz virtualisation enabled
2 GB DDR800 RAM

Cheers!
Comment 1 Dan Dart 2009-03-29 22:08:20 UTC 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/350531
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