Woodchip had problems booting a test -r16 CD on his laptop. Here's a transcript of the problem (the CD included 2.4.17-r3): 1. boot the CD - nothing eye catching here. - press enter for your PCI autodetect stuff (doesnt actually find anything for my laptop, which is normal... nothing to find) 2. mounted my /dev/hda2 to /mnt/linux - this partition was made like a week ago, using a possibly old version of mkreiserfs. mkreiserfs -h tea /dev/hda2 3. examined some files in the /mnt/linux/etc directory. was obviously working as I 'cat'ed some files. 4. trying modprobe some_modules_for_my_pcmcia_stuff, gets a lot of unresolved symbols. 5. Around this time, started seeing errors on the console: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda: drive not ready for command task_out_intr: should not trigger Im sorry, I dont recall the actual ordering of the messages. But the task_out_intr came in spurts of like 5 or 6 lines at a time. (the same error) 6. Rebooted the machine. 7. Select linux in lilo menu, kernel actually boots! but panics when it cant find the / reiserfs partition. Weird, this laptop has only a /, no seperate /boot partition. So it obviously read the kernel off the disk, but died when coming to fstab?? 8. So its apparent at this stage, that the / partition is corrupted? 9. Reboot with the CD again. Once booted into the CD, tried mounting windows partition just for the heck of it. mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/win ; immediately umount /mnt/win (just to see what happens) and boom, get: task_out_intr: should not trigger So thats happening by just mounting, and immediately unmounting. 10. Decide that this CD is dangerous :( laptop: toshiba 440cdx satellilte pro (older machine, P133 w/MMX, 48MB RAM) hda: TOSHIBA MK1403MAV, ATA DISK drive
This is a confirmed bug (confirmed with Andre, the patch author). It will be fixed soon. Until it is, we'll keep it out of our kernel. 2.4.17-r5 solves this problem; it'll be uploaded in less than an hr, so I'm marking this as fixed.
