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Mandriva "One" 2008 takes ages to boot [solved]


jimdunn
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Hello

 

I posted this on Mandriva forum too - I'm hoping someone here might know the answer...

 

I'm looking at installing 2008, so I downloaded the "One" live iso to try it out on my hardware.

 

It takes an age to boot, largely due to some sort of loop it gets into trying to configure the DVD Writer it is running from. (Toshiba ODD-DVD SD-R6252 on a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop - ALI M5229 IDE Controller)

 

It basically sits there saying

 

ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 ... frozen
  ata2.00: cmd ... ...(timeout)
  ata2: soft resetting port
  ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2
  ata2: EH complete

 

a few times,

 

then the same thing but

MWDMA1

 

for a while...

 

 

I'm assuming that this is because the new libata drivers are having a problem with this drive, negotiating DMA

 

The whole boot process takes about 15 minutes (2007.1 live iso boots in 2 minutes, tops, without these errors)

 

I've tried giving boot parameters:

 

live combined_mode=ide

live combined_mode=libata

 

live libata.atapi_enabled=0

live libata.atapi_enabled=1

 

in various combinations.

 

I've also tried noapic, nolapic, acpi=off

 

and even ide=nodma

 

None of these parameters seem to help at all.

 

Questions:

Is there any way to force libata new stuff not to be used at boot ?

 

Will this problem go away with a proper install ?

(ie Is it a peculiarity of the "live" iso)

 

 

 

3.10.2007: edited to change title to [sOLVED]

Edited by jimdunn
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It sounds like a kernel bug.

Give us some "uname -a" please, and report this to Mandriva.

And no, there's no way to bypass the new libata stuff.

 

Thanks - I'm actually in the process of burning a new CD.

 

Just want to be sure that it's a real bug, and not a bad burn before I report it.

 

md5sum of the iso was ok - but when I tried to md5sum the CD I got a couple of read errors...

 

...

 

I'll report back

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Well, it persists after burning a new cd.

 

all md5sums ok this time.

 

uname -a:

Linux localhost 2.6.22.6-desktop586-3mdv #1 SMP Wed Sep 19 21:33:09 CEST 2007 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4	 CPU 3.06GHz GNU/Linux

 

I'm off to bugzilla now to post a report :mellow:

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As long as you're sure you haven't done something terribly wrong, Bugzilla is absolutely the best place to submit errors of that kind...

 

Certainly, as I just discovered.

 

But I wouldn't have liked to have gone in there unprepared or with a silly non-bug.

 

They'd have eaten me alive :huh:

 

A high level of understanding of what you are reporting, some prior research, thorough reporting of your bug, and the willingness to be quickly referred to something you missed, and should have seen, would seem essential prerequisites for mixing with that crowd.

 

That said, they were gentle with me, despite this bug being fixed in Cooker.

 

In my defence - I couldn't have known it was fixed since I was downloading the latest version of "One" as a test for 2008 on my hardware.

 

Downloading and installing the latest Cooker to see if I should download and install 2008 when it goes "live" is a bit more time consuming for a lazy old ***** like me :P

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don't be that scared of bugzilla. we'd rather you post 10 'silly' bugs and one useful one than not post anything because you're scared. All bugs are handled by the triage team before being handled by the developers, and I run the triage team. So if anyone's mean to you, tell me and I'll set 'em straight. :D

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Anyone still following this thread should read the corresponding thread in the Mandriva Forum : Here...

 

Basically, the good folks at Mandriva provided a test iso which solves the problem with the ide drivers, so the bug in RC2 will be fixed in Final :D

 

Splendid service - and super quick response.

 

We should be as quick to congratulate them when they do good stuff, as we are to criticise them at other times... (IMO) ;)

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