Re: Lots of con-current I/O = resets SATA link? (2.6.25.10)

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Jon Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Jon Nelson wrote:
>>> Where should APIC errors be posted?
>>> My EPoX MF570-SLI *will not boot* without noapic or nolapic.
>> Post on linux-kernel about that one, with the dmesg from noapic mode and
>> whatever info you can gather from when it won't boot. You might want to also
>> test with 2.6.26-rc8 to see if the problem has already been fixed there.
> 
> Here is the boot log from booting my EPoX MF570SLI in nolapic mode.
> When I boot without nolapic or noapic I get as far as
> 
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> 
> I can't boot to serial right now.

You are getting this as the next line after that:

0000:00:02.1 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001

You might want to try upgrading your BIOS, it seems like the BIOS is not 
letting go of the USB controller when Linux tries to take over. I don't 
know if that's related to the problem though.

If that doesn't work, I'd try a newer kernel version.