kernel 2.6.16-1.2139FC5 and sata

[Gary]

Hi all, I ran the pup update on my Fedorea core 5 installation and everything seemed to go fine, but during boot the system hangs. I think it has something to do with the sata drive. I boot Kubuntu, Windows and Fedora from grub which is installed on hda along with Kubuntu. Windows xp is on the sata drive and Fedora is on hdb. This set up has worked though all of the kernel upgrades to this point. I would appreciate any help I can get resolving this. Thanks in advance - Gary

[Gary]

Oops make that, kernel 2.6.17-1.2139FC5 and sata

[Seve]

Hello:
What is your sata controller / hd?
I have a NF4 and a SIL with 4 SATA11 drives and have had 0 issues so far with this kernel?
Seve

[Gary]

Thanks for the quick reply, the drive is a 30 gig wd raptor, I believe the controller is promise. Here are the last three line I get before the boot hangs:

sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
device-mapper:4.6.0-icctl (2006-02-17) initialized :dm-devel@redhat.com

there are no errors that I can see, the system just hangs there. It looks as if someone else is having sata probs with this new kernel as well. Thanks again - Gary

[Seve]

Hello Gary:
Sorry I can't provide any more information. Could be a bug in the kernel if you and others are having issues.
Seve

[marcrblevins]

I had the same message:
device-mapper:4.6.0-icctl (2006-02-17) initialized :dm-devel@redhat.com

Then I went to my grub.conf, removed quiet option from rghb lines.
Rebooted:
Passed "device-mapper:4.6.0-icctl (2006-02-17) initialized :dm-devel@redhat.com" message.
Now it hangs at:
Making device-mapper control node

There is something wrong with kernel 2.6.17_2139 update.

[qinhan]

I'm having the same issue. The lesson I learned is never upgrate your kernel unless there's no problem reported. One upgrade, anything can break.

[Hax]

Yay - someone else having the same problems with 2139 as me - thought I was going mad for a while there!

Don't suppose anyone know a fix for it yet...?

[qinhan]

The fix I had is removing 2139 and going back to 2133.

[Gary]

I always have a working kernel I can fall back on though, and I imagine there will be another kernel update before too long and hopefully that will fix things. I have two other Linux distros installed, Mac osx, and Windows xp, and Fedora is still my favourite, it's worth the occassional growing pain.

[xhoangx]

i have this problem too. it is in fact the sata because once i disconnected my sata cables from the drives, it boots fine. maybe there is a way to edit some file so it won't scan the sata drives at boot? hope there is a fix soon.

[Gary]

I installed the latest kernel and still have the same problem, has anyone else had any luck? - Gary

[zackiv31]

I got the latest kernel as well and have been having problems >2133... posted to a different post... guess we have to wait around and see.. :-/