Hey! nice to read that!! :) then it's time to scratch in the second-hand market for a replacement :) There are also good USB-DVD drives. For example, i use some of these: http://www.dx.com/es/p/genuine-toshiba-usb-2-0-dvd-rw-external-optical-drive-51959#.Vm6VqK_hBE4
Regards, Dani El jue, 10-12-2015 a las 19:06 +0100, taringamberini escribió: > On 10/12/2015 14:08, Daniel Tarrero wrote: > > Well, i'm far from being completelly sure, but worth a try to remove t > he > > DVD and see if that solves this errors: > > > > https://support.lenovo.com/es/es/videos/migr-72537 > > > I didn't know that removing a DVD was so simple. > > I tried and the: > > error: AHCI transfer time out. > > has disappeared!!! > > All credits to Daniel Tarrero :-D many thanks Daniel! > > > > Moreover, with Debian 8.2.0 installed, and before removing the DVD the > behaviour was: > > > > grub> cryptomount -a > > Attempting to decrypt master key.... > > Enter passphrase for ahci,msdos1 (d309etc...etc...etc...): > > > > but GRUB hung for about 3 minutes and then it printed: > > > > Slot 0 opened > > error: AHCI transfer time out. > > > > I have investigated running: > > > > grub> ls -la > > > > GRUB hung for about 3 minutes and then it printed: > > > > Device memdisk: ... > > Device lvm/grubcrypt-swap: No known filesystem detected - ... > > Device lvm/grubcrypt-debian: Filesystem type ext* - ... UUID > > 1cbd60e7-4b00-41cd-8220-944369022911 ... > > Device crypto0: No known filesystem detected - ... > > ... > > Device ahci0: No known filesystem detected - ... > > Partition ahci0,msdos1: No known filesystem detected - ... > > ... > > but after removing DVD the behaviour was: > > grub> cryptomount -a > Attempting to decrypt master key.... > Enter passphrase for ahci,msdos1 (d309etc...etc...etc...): > > GRUB works for about 10 seconds then it prints: > > Slot 0 opened > > whit no more: > > error: AHCI transfer time out. > > Such error has disappeared!!! > > > > The hang has disappeared after other commands too, running: > > grub> ls -la > > GRUB instantaneously prints: > > Device memdisk: ... > Device lvm/grubcrypt-swap: No known filesystem detected - ... > Device lvm/grubcrypt-debian: Filesystem type ext* - ... UUID > 1cbd60e7-4b00-41cd-8220-944369022911 ... > Device crypto0: No known filesystem detected - ... > ... > Device ahci0: No known filesystem detected - ... > Partition ahci0,msdos1: No known filesystem detected - ... > ... > > > > RECAP > > 1. I have bought a Libreboot T400 with a HDD and a CD/DVD RW drive from > http://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/ It works perfectly with the > pre-installed Trisquel. > > 2. I have installed Debian with full disk encryption following Libreboot > documentation but I experimented some "error: AHCI transfer time out." > which last about 3 minutes. My "boot" process was: > > a. type LUKS passphrase at GRUB > b. system hangs for about 3 minutes > c. type (again) LUKS passphrase during debian boot > d. type user passphrase at user login > > 3. I have removed the CD/DVD RW drive > (https://support.lenovo.com/es/es/videos/migr-72537) and the "error: > AHCI transfer time out." has disappeared. Now My "boot" process was: > > a. type LUKS passphrase at GRUB > c. type (again) LUKS passphrase during debian boot > d. type user passphrase at user login > > > > Best regards, > Tarin > >
