Latest working kernel version: 2.6.24 Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.27, although I've heard from other users that the bug appeared in 2.6.26. Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10 Hardware Environment: CPU... processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2393.989 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up pebs bts cid bogomips : 4787.97 clflush size : 64 Memory: 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000c0000-000cf7ff : Video ROM 000d0000-000d27ff : Adapter ROM 000f0000-000fffff : reserved 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-1fffbfff : System RAM 00100000-003f0489 : Kernel code 003f048a-0054378f : Kernel data 005bd000-0066f473 : Kernel bss 1fffc000-1fffefff : ACPI Tables 1ffff000-1fffffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage e3000000-e3000fff : 0000:00:13.0 e3000000-e3000fff : firewire_ohci e3800000-e38000ff : 0000:00:12.0 e3800000-e38000ff : 8139too e4000000-e400ffff : 0000:00:0f.0 e4800000-e4807fff : 0000:00:0e.0 e4800000-e4807fff : 0000:00:0e.0 e5000000-e5000fff : 0000:00:03.3 e5000000-e5000fff : ehci_hcd e5800000-e5800fff : 0000:00:03.2 e5800000-e5800fff : ohci_hcd e6000000-e6000fff : 0000:00:03.1 e6000000-e6000fff : ohci_hcd e6800000-e6800fff : 0000:00:03.0 e6800000-e6800fff : ohci_hcd e7000000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:01 e7000000-e7ffffff : 0000:01:00.0 e7000000-e7ffffff : nvidia e8000000-ebffffff : 0000:00:00.0 ef700000-febfffff : PCI Bus 0000:01 ef7e0000-ef7fffff : 0000:01:00.0 ef800000-ef87ffff : 0000:01:00.0 f0000000-f7ffffff : 0000:01:00.0 fec00000-fec00fff : reserved fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC fee00000-fee00fff : reserved ffee0000-ffefffff : pnp 00:02 ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved Software Environment... Linux server 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP Wed Dec 24 17:52:21 MST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Gnu C 4.3.2 Gnu make 3.81 binutils 2.18.93.20081009 util-linux 2.14 mount support module-init-tools 3.3-pre11 e2fsprogs 1.41.3 reiserfsprogs 3.6.19 pcmciautils 014 PPP 2.4.4 Linux C Library 2.8.90 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.8.90 Procps 3.2.7 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.14.1 Sh-utils 6.10 udev 124 wireless-tools 29 Modules Loaded nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat rfcomm bridge stp bnep sco l2cap bluetooth ppdev speedstep_lib cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_ondemand freq_table cpufreq_userspace wmi video output container sbs sbshc pci_slot battery ipv6 iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ac sbp2 lp snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss pcspkr evdev psmouse usb_storage snd_pcm serio_raw libusual snd_seq_dummy nvidia snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi parport_pc parport snd_seq_midi_event rt61pci rt2x00pci rt2x00lib snd_seq rfkill snd_timer snd_seq_device led_class i2c_sis96x button sis_agp agpgart eeprom_93cx6 snd soundcore shpchp pci_hotplug i2c_core snd_page_alloc ext3 jbd mbcache 8139cp sd_mod crc_t10dif sg ohci1394 ieee1394 ohci_hcd ehci_hcd 8139too mii usbcore pata_sis pata_acpi ata_generic thermal processor fan fuse Other pertinent information... Hard Drive: Seagate ST380023A 80GB (scsi0) IDE Interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (prog-if 80 [Master]) --- Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 8133 Problem Description: The root file system fails to mount on any 2.6.27 kernel using a SATA drive. 2.6.24 is working. To get around this issue, you must use the all_generic_ide or ata_piix boot options in conjunction with rootdelay=120. rootdelay=240 works too if you don't want to use one of the aforementioned boot options. Steps to reproduce: Install a 2.6.27 kernel on a computer with the same hardware as me and reboot.
Created attachment 19865 [details] This is the dmesg output from kernel version 2.6.27.10. This is the most important part of the dmesg output. [ 7.500877] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver [ 7.500888] bus: 'pci': add driver ohci_hcd [ 7.507268] bus: 'pci': add driver ohci1394 [ 7.524541] ata1.00: ATA-6: ST380023A, 3.31, max UDMA/100 [ 7.524547] ata1.00: 156301488 sectors, multi 16: LBA [ 7.540518] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 12.736015] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 17.552015] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 22.748015] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 27.564015] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 32.760017] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 62.608015] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 67.636015] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 67.636023] ata2: reset failed, giving up [ 67.636180] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST380023A 3.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ---- STARTS TO BOOT UP NORMALLY HERE ---- So basically, it won't boot if your rootdelay is under roughly 70 seconds.
Can you please post kernel boot log from working (older kernel) setup?
I will tomorrow as I am not actually at the computer now. I will also post a log of it totally timing out if the rootdelay is under 70 seconds.
Created attachment 19973 [details] Dmesg output - 2.6.24-21_generic bootup
Created attachment 19974 [details] Dmesg output - 2.6.27.10 timeout
Created attachment 19975 [details] Dmesg output - 2.6.27.10 bootup
Created attachment 19976 [details] Dmesg output - 2.6.28 timeout
What happens if you disable pata_acpi?
(In reply to comment #8) > What happens if you disable pata_acpi? > What boot command is that?
It's distro specific, so you'll need to dig documentation of your distro.
Tried it - didn't work.
Can you please post kernel boot log?
Created attachment 20142 [details] Dmesg output - 2.6.27.10 timeout with noacpi The rootdelay option was not set, therefore it timed out.
Created attachment 20143 [details] Dmesg output - 2.6.27.11 boot with noacpi It booted because I had rootdelay set.
Created attachment 20144 [details] Dmesg output - 2.6.28 timeout with noacpi
Created attachment 20158 [details] Dmesg output- 2.6.28.4 boot with all_generic_ide This is 2.6.28.4 booting with all_generic_ide. A side effect of all_generic_ide is very high swap and cpu usage.
In all cases, pata_acpi was still being probed before pata_sis. Can you please try to take that out?