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trx

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Registered: 2007-02-15

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real slow boot with intel chipset, maybe a known problem?

Hello out there,

i just switched over from ubuntu because i had to format my harddisk and wanted to try something new and something more challenging than ubuntu. i went to the installation process, booted up arch and everything seemed to work nicely. after i updated and tried to reboot my system, the boot sequence stucked with saying something with kernel panic. so i searched these forums and found the solution (replacing initrd26.img with kernel26.img in grub/menu.lst)
now, i have another problem. my boot sequence "hangs" at this point:

scsi1 : ata_piix
ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1)
ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1)
ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1)
ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33

arch will boot, but it takes 4 to 5 minutes and thats too much!
so i searched these forums again, and found some answers, but i thing i can't handle them... (yeah i put earlymodules=piix into my kernel command line, but it wouldn't work)

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=27740
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28109
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28669

this is what i've found, but i still can't get a solution out of that!

i'm new to arch (but not to linux), so please would you tell me what to do? (even if it's maybe a dumb question?)

i running arch on a sata-harddisk and a intel chipset

thanks!

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trx

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Registered: 2007-02-15

Posts: 38

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Re: real slow boot with intel chipset, maybe a known problem?

well i solved this problem by reinstalling arch and updating to the new 2.6.20 kernel. now everything works fine and boots up very fast...

thanks

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