I've been having various troubles with Linux on the net6501 with bios 1.40h:
For instance, Linux 3.04 (32-bit/smp) generates this message into the
dmesg. I have no idea what it means. The kernel never finishes coming
up - it panics with the serial error mentioned in an earlier email.
> ACPI Error: A valid RSDP was not found (20110413/tbxfroot-219)
A 2.6.28.10 kernel (32-bit/smp) doesn't generate the above message, nor
does it panic, but it does have trouble finding the SATA hard drive that
it is booting from, it pauses for several seconds and then emits the "gc
timeout" messages shown below. The boot-sequence eventually fails
because Linux ends up believing that it has no root drive. (This is
using a real-live 2'5" SATA hard drive, not one of the micro-SSDs.)
Soren tells me that 2.6.28.10 is too old for the Net6501. So I raise
this just in case anybody else encounters the same situation. I'm
hoping to be able to get 2.6.38.6 running - that version being the
latest that has been reported so far as usable.
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xa0004400 port 0xa0004500 irq 11
>
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xa0004400 port 0xa0004580 irq 11
>
> ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>
> ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
>
> ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
>
> ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>
> ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
>
> ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
>
> ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
>
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
>
> ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
>
> ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
>
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
>
> ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
--karl--
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