have a pavillion xg833 with 64 mb 0f memory booting puppy4.1, slack12.1, DSL, and debian. they all boot up fine except for debian. It has a slow bootup due to the following error during bootup that repeats serveral times before the boot process continues on :

ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ide0 reset: success
hda: Task_in_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady Seek Complete Data Rquest Error}
hda: Task_in_intr: error=0x10 {SectorIdNotFound} LBA sector=39102336

I only get the error when booting the debian distro. every thing seems to work ok.
its just that it takes so long for debian to bootup. Ive ran apt update which updated the kernel.
any sugestions would be appreciated.

Did google give you any hits for the error, the chipset or the drive?

Here's an example:
http://www2.jankratochvil.net/piperm...ch/000251.html

Different default config for hdparm would also be a reasonable explanation for the varying distro behaviour.

You may have some known hardwrae issues. When you boot the other systems, see what extra parameters are passed to the kernel (if the system is booted, just look at their /boot/grub/menu.lst entries).

You may need to add an extra parameter (things like 'noacpi' and so on) to get the system to behave.

I got looking dsl also dose it ,not as many times. slack and puppy have no errors. must be a debian thing since dsl is based on debian. have tried nodma, noacpi, noscsi, noapm. no extra parameters is passed by grub for puppy or slack. have already tried to google for an answer with no success.

Have you played with hdparm?

Which version of Debian? The Testing version of the installer is often better with hardware detection/compatibility than the Stable version. Don't let the "Testing" name scare you. Unless you're running a server or something mission-critical, Testing is what you probably want.

Uh-oh, it's another disciple from the cult of the re-install.
Considering you're on old hardware it'd me be my last choice.
Try that if you like, but don't forget to sacrifice a chook first.

thanks for the suggestions. i don,t think a reinstall will fix this. I'll either have to figure out what paramter to pass in grub, or install and set up hdparm. I do'nt have a hdparm.conf file or anything refering to it in my init files or folders. I did a light install of debian so I don't have all the gizmos of a debian full install. Any suggestions on a place to go to learn how to set up hdparm woud be appreciated. So it's off back to the tree of knowlege for me. thanks for the help

So.. Is that a Seagate Hard drive by chance ?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401035
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8816
Looks like it may be fixed in the newer kernels..

SIMILAR TO that but LBA sectors only goes to 39102324 and actual total sectors is 39102336 or something to that effect. I got the computer second hand with mellinum already installed on. I resized the hard drive to make room for the linux operating systems. I was getting a "partition extends past end of sectors"or something to that effect by gparted, so I left empty space after the last partition to stop getting the error by gparted, so i think the problem is that the total number of LBA sectors dos'nt match the total sectors, i could probably fix it by reformatting the whole hard drive, but I don't want to do that, so I'm trying to find a work around.
after a little research i have a seagate ST32041A, so it must be a seagate thing.
One final note. got rid of the errors by doing a reinstall with debian testing. it uses a 2.6.24 kernel instead of a 2.6.18 kernel. for those that suggest to just update to a newer kernel, tried but wasn't able to get it working because all i had was a base install plus fluxbox and a webbrowser. maybe i'll work on my kernel compile skills some other day. tried to compile a kernel once with slack12.0 with limited success. thanks for all the help and suggestions.