Public bug reported:
At bootup I end up in busybox and I see the following message on the top of the
screen "Gave up waiting for root device"
Actually I think that my hard drive "falls asleep" just after leaving grub.
When I'm in the busybox I need to unplug my hard drive (serial ata) and to plug
it again so that I can hear that it's restarting. After doing that I type exit
in the busybox and the boot process restarts normally.
Dmesg shows me that:
[ 9.672007] ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 14.320007] ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[ 19.680006] ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 24.328007] ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[ 29.688007] ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 59.092004] ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[ 59.092004] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[ 59.688009] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[ 60.164017] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 60.196367] ata4.00: HPA detected: current 160834367, native 160836480
[ 60.196371] ata4.00: ATA-6: HDS722580VLSA80, V32OA6MA, max UDMA/100
[ 60.196373] ata4.00: 160834367 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
The COMRESET thing continues as far as I don't unplug and plug again my
hard drive.
I'm not sure this bug concerns only Ubuntu because I tried recently other
distributions with the same kernel and I get the same error (Debian and pmagic
liveCD) So I think this bug is concerning the kernel 2.6.26 but I don't know
how to report this bug upstream.
I also have to tell you that it's a SATA II hard drive (3gbps) on a (nforce 3)
SATA I controller (1.5gbps). And it appears that the controller does not fully
support the hard drive (or the SATA I retro-compatibility of the hard drive is
malfunctioning I don't know) But with older kernel it did always work without
any problem.
I'm running intrepid ibex up-to-date, kernel 2.6.26-5-generic
Please tell me if I should attach the entire dmesg or anything.
Thanks
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256637
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