kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 breaks promise drivers for _non-raid_ SATA

[Sam Varshavchik]

Scott R. Godin writes:

> I'm running a seagate 250GB SATA drive as the main boot drive of the
> system, non-raid. The motherboard apparently has some sort of deal going
> that causes sata_nv to also load, but there are no ports on the
> motherboard for connection. I wound up installing the promise card
> instead to use the new hard disk:
> 
> $ lspci |grep -i promise
> 01:08.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20575
> (SATAII150 TX2plus) (rev 02)
> 
> dmidecode shows the motherboard Version: ASUS A7N266-VM ACPI BIOS Rev
> 1004/AA, and /proc/cpuinfo shows model name : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+
> 
> Upgrading to the kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 release caused the system to
> completely fail to continue booting; I got a long string of error
> messages that never get logged because the boot process past the grub
> bootloader never gets that far. 
> 
> commenting out the new kernel (or otherwise choosing the previous
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 release) returns the boot process to normal and
> I am able to get in just fine again. Rushed this one out, did we? :-)

My experience is just the opposite.  2.6.17 is the first kernel I can boot 
since 2.6.13.

Anyway, you need to log those kernel messages.  Without them, there's little 
to go on.

Go get yourself an RS-232 null modem adapter, and connect the serial port on 
this machine to a serial port on another box.  Run minicom on the other box, 
set it to 9600,8N1, and begin capturing.

Now, boot with "console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0", and you'll get to capture 
all the kernel errors, in all their glory.


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