no answers? :-( On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mridul Manohar Mishra < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I am facing a weird problem in Lenny, till now I have been running Etch > without any problem. Two days ago I upgraded to Lenny, installation went > smooth, I was able to install Nvidia drivers properly. Everything ran OK. > But then I shutdown my system (power-off) and tried to power on again after > a couple of minutes. The system booted to Grub, I chose linux to boot into > (I have dual boot with Lenny and XP) it went until certain point and then > displayed error saying : > > "Sata link is down, taking too much time to respond." > "SRST failed (error -16)." > > After then it displayed > "slowing down the SATA link to 1.5 GHz " > > again the same SATA errors and it left me on the prompt with initramfs > prompt. > > I tried resetting my system couple of times but of no avail. Then I tried > booting into XP to see whether there is something really wrong with my > drive, I logged in to XP successfully. Re-booted the system again and this > time booted into linux and to my surprise everything ran fine. > > I tried to generate the same scenario just to make sure whether it was one > off case, but it wasn't. Now if want to power on my PC, I need to boot in to > windows first and then reboot my system into linux. I can't log into Linux > from power on, directly. > > I checked my BIOS to make sure if anything in BIOS is wrong, but nothing > seems wrong with my BIOS. I have 4 sata ports on my Mother Board and the > disk is connected to port number 2. I have DVD drive connected to IDE port. > My boot preference is Hard disk first ( dunno whether this information is of > any relevence). > > There seems to be a problem with my Lan also, sometimes it shows limited > connectivity and to correct this also I need to boot in to windows. > > I have a Intel Q660 system with Nvidia Mother board and 9600GT graphics > card. I installed the driver provided by Nvidia in Nvidia way (not the > Debian way) hope this is not the cause of the problem. > > Anybody, please help me out on this in locating what the problem might be. > I want to look into the details of the problem but have got no clue where to > start with and what the cause might be. > > Thanks in advance > Mridul >
