Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (509 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Andreas Hoffmann" <andreas.in.hk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with my installation of SuSE 10.3. I installed the
> Alpha5 version
> as the 10.2 version wasn't running on my System with the following
> chipset (due to
> problems with the AHCI drivers) Northbridge AMD 690V; Southbridge AMD SB600;
> I/O Chip: ITE IT8716. My Mainboard is a Gigybyte MA69VM-S2.
> The 10.3 Alpha5 Version was runninng and installing great on this
> system, but the 10.3 Beta1
> don't run at all anymore. I updated the Alpha5 Installation doing a
> Factory Update with the new DVD from yast2 which worked fine, but
> after the reboot, to activate the newly installed kernel, the system
> cannot boot up again, it hangs with the following error messages:
> ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)
>
> Those messages repeat for 3 times then it tries to fall back to 1.5
> Gbps but also no success.
>
> Then the other 4 sata Ports are also probed like this and also give
> the same errors too.
>
> After this I tried a clean Install of 10.3 Beta 1 from the KDE CD
> which isn't working as
> the system hangs while loading the AHCI drivers during installation,
> the same as I observed with 10.2.
>
> What can I try to resolve(or to work around) the problem?

Please do report a bug in bugzilla.novell.com so that the kernel
developers can investigate and fix this.

Thanks,
Andreas
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