I have a problem with the disc controller during booting. Sometimes it's okay, but usually it fails. This problem is new with i386 6.3-RELEASE. I never had problems with older releases. Here is the output of dmesg when everything is fine (verbose boot): .. atapci0: <Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x3 6,0xf000-0xf00f irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 atapci0: Reserved 0x10 bytes for rid 0x20 type 4 at 0xf000 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1f0 atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x14 type 4 at 0x3f6 ata0: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=51 ostat1=00 ata0: stat0=0x00 err=0x01 lsb=0x14 msb=0xeb ata0: stat1=0x00 err=0x00 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata0: reset tp2 stat0=00 stat1=00 devices=0x4<ATAPI_MASTER> ioapic0: routing intpin 14 (ISA IRQ 14) to vector 54 ata0: [MPSAFE] ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0x170 atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x1c type 4 at 0x376 ata1: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat1=00 ata1: stat0=0xd0 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata1: stat0=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata1: stat1=0x00 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata1: reset tp2 stat0=50 stat1=00 devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER> ioapic0: routing intpin 15 (ISA IRQ 15) to vector 55 ata1: [MPSAFE] When it fails, I see lots of messages .. ata1: stat0=0x80 err=0xff lsb=0xff msg=0xff .. scrolling up very fast and finally: ata1: reset tp2 stat0=80 stat1=80 devices=0x0 Later on the disk is not found and the kernel can't mount the root file system. The computer is a Shuttle XPC-G2 with FB61 mainboard and Intel82865G + 82801EB chipset. How-To-Repeat: The error occurs most of the time. After maybe half a dozen retries the system usually comes up without problems.
The problem also exists with 7.0RC1.
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