From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Barry Scott Subject: Re: 2.6.16.20 fails to boot on SATA system but works on IDE Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:44:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4497FBB6.6060504@onelan.co.uk> References: <4492DDFF.6010303@onelan.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.92]:59921 "EHLO anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750943AbWFTNo0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:44:26 -0400 Received: from onelanbroadband.demon.co.uk ([80.177.165.253] helo=[192.168.1.23]) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1FsgWk-0008gQ-Fb for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:44:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <4492DDFF.6010303@onelan.co.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Barry Scott wrote: > I originally post to linux kernel dev list. But guess that this is a > more appropriate list to ask for help on. > > After failing to get 2.6.17-rc6 working on a HP dc7600U I went back > to 2.6.16.20. It also fails to find any volume group during boot. > > I think this might be problem with SATA as I can boot the same build on > two other systems that have IDE disks. > > I get success on VIA Epia M10000 and a P4 Shuttle systems that use > IDE disks but fail on the HP dc7600U that uses a SATA disk. All three > systems use LVM2. > > The Fedora build of 2.6.16 works on all three systems. > > I'm going to see if there are debug messages I can turn on it libata > and md that might give more information. > > Any suggestions as to what I can do to track down this problem? > > Barry If this is the wrong list to ask about this problem can anyone suggest the right place to ask? Barry