Arch Linux

Kane

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Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

Boot Problems

Hi guys,
I've just installed arch 0.8 and im geting some erros on boot.

Firstly it gets to a stage where this is on the screen (from kernel.log):

Apr  2 10:23:30 kane ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Apr  2 10:23:30 kane ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33

and then it stops there, and times out then gives a message something along the lines of waiting 5 secs before retrying, eventually it continues, but i noticed if i have a cd in my cdrom drive then it skips past this without stopping and boots fine.
I also have the same problem with the latest release of zenwalk(4.4.1) however both the previous release of arch and zenwalk work fine.

Secondly im getting these errors:

Apr  2 10:23:30 kane end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1284176
Apr  2 10:23:30 kane Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 321044
Apr  2 10:23:30 kane sr 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002
Apr  2 10:23:30 kane sr0: Current: sense key=0x3
Apr  2 10:23:30 kane ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0

about 9 of these messages scroll by before it continues.

does anyone know what the problem might be?

Thanks

Last edited by Kane (2007-04-02 10:06:35)

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Boot Problems

Does it do this from the arch install cd also? 

If so maybe try the older IDE option on the arch iso.  Maybe it's the newer pata/sata drivers causing issues (just a guess)

Kane

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Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

Re: Boot Problems

this is from the arch cd.

sorry if this sounds really stupid, but how do i try the older IDE option?

do you mean by typing by typing arch-noscsi at the boot prompt?

thanks

Last edited by Kane (2007-04-02 17:56:01)

Kane

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Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

Re: Boot Problems

Well i think ive fixed it lol.

I added the ide-legacy boot option, and everythings been fine since

Thanks Zer0!

Just out of curiosity (to expand my limited linux knowledge ), what does the ide-legacy option actually do?

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Boot Problems

I think changing the hooks line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf will also solve this.. change it to the old IDE module instead of sata & pata.
Then do a "mkinitcpio -g [your kernel]"

See the mkinitcpio wiki for more info..