slow bootup ("invalid PBLK length [5]" on ASUS m/b)

[Konstantin Svist]

Hi there,

I'm having a problem with my computer - it takes a while to boot up.
Here's the stuff I think is relevant:
* first problem appears right after "Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting 
the kernel." message:
ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5]

I've searched for the error on the net and noticed that this seems to 
affect Asus motherboards. I happen to have an Asus A7S-VM.
I'm not sure if this is related to the slowdown, though.


* Right after PBLK message, I get "Red Hat nash version 6.0.9 starting" 
- and right after that comes the main problem (takes about a minute or 
so while the messages repeat a few times):

ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

These two lines repeat about 4 times - then 1st of the two lines appears 
again - and then the bootup process continues normally (don't see any 
other obvious problems).


Can anything be done to fix this behavior? It's really annoying :(


Thanks!

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