cannot boot right after installation, Fedora 11 problem

faizlo · 10-06-2009, 09:45 AM

Hi all,

I have a dell box equipped with AMD Athlon 64 bit, Optiplex 740 and an NVIDIA graphics card. I have just finished my installation and I cannot boot. I am welcomed with this error:
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ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xcc00 irq 20
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xcc00 irq 20
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

Any hints will be appreciated,

faizlo

rylan76 · 10-19-2009, 05:52 AM

Seems like you are missing a SATA driver for your southbridge to which those drives are connected?

I once had the same problem with a system where I could install Fedora 10, but the moment it had to boot for the first time from the HDD it stopped with much the same error.

The fix was to add the parameter

Code:

all-generic-ide

to the end of the kernel boot line in /boot/grub.conf (just after the word "quiet" on the line).

Maybe you can try this?