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

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

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?

I have a motherboard which is not detecting SATA type drives for fedora6 and somehow I have to use fedora 6.

To make is work while installing I passed “all-generic-ide pci=nommconf” and it installed, I updated the same to the grub.conf. It installed perfectly but it’s not rebooting even though the grub menu shows “all-generic-ide pci-nommconf” parameters.

If I run a rescue disk and in the option prompt if I type “linux all-generis-ide rescue” it works and shows all partitions as hdg1 and hdg2. I checked and my fstab is also aligned to hdg1 and hdg2.
Every things looks fine but I don’t know why the option all-generic-ide is not working if given in grub/menu.

Note: I tried all other options too in grub like acpi=off, pci=bios, pci=nomsi, pci=direct, pci=nobios, noapci nolapci etc etc though if it is installed with just “all-generic-ide pci=nommconf” it should boot also.

Any ideas on this is welcome.

managementguy

fedora 6 is AND has been DEAD for a long time .There have been NO updates to it in 3+ years

and WILL NOT install on most very new hardware .
all support ended BEFORE that hardware was made.


if you need something for a very,very old program look at running centOS 5.5 ( the RHEL 5.5 clone)

Thanks John,
I am aware that fedora 6 support is stopped long back, but as I said its inevitable to get rid of this. Anyway if I see on forum many people in past faced the same/similar error/issue and used those options and it worked for them. I was wondering whats going wrong in my system.

Thanks in adv.
Yash

Past being operative word?

Any Fedora 6 program should run on CentOS 5.x systems since RHEL/CentOS 5 is based on Fedoara 6

DrLove73,

I don't have to run some application on fedora its like we have a legacy kernel code build around fedora6, so it too complex to port to other OS or newer version, we started facing this issue.

Then either look at BIOS to turn on IDE compatibility mode, or find some older motherboard, or add additional PCI SATA kontroler that works with Fedora 6.