Turns out the firmware on this server is a bit old(U-Boot 2013.04 (Oct 01 2014 - 15:18:17)), and the problem doesn't exit on another server which firmware is U-Boot 2013.04 (Mar 26 2015 - 11:31:01).
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1469937 Title: HP ProLiant m400 Server: kernel boot failed because of failed sata probe Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: 1, upgrade to vivid from trysty 2, boot the server, then the following log in [1] can be observed [1] kernel booting log Starting kernel ... L3C: 8MB [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.19.0-21-generic (buildd@beebe) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.2-10ubuntu13) ) #21-Ubuntu SMP Sun Jun 14 18:34:06 UTC 2015 (Ubuntu 3.19.0-21.21-generic 3.19.8) [ 0.000000] CPU: AArch64 Processor [500f0000] revision 0 [ 0.000000] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU0 [ 0.000000] efi: Getting EFI parameters from FDT: [ 0.000000] efi: UEFI not found. [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 14 pages/cpu @ffffffc7fff49000 s19968 r8192 d29184 u57344 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8257536 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600n8r ro [ 0.000000] log_buf_len individual max cpu contribution: 4096 bytes [ 0.000000] log_buf_len total cpu_extra contributions: 28672 bytes [ 0.000000] log_buf_len min size: 16384 bytes [ 0.000000] log_buf_len: 65536 bytes [ 0.000000] early log buf free: 14868(90%) [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4194304 (order: 13, 33554432 bytes) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes) [ 0.000000] Memory: 32942004K/33554432K available (7287K kernel code, 812K rwdata, 3180K rodata, 604K init, 743K bss, 612428K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) [ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout: [ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xffffff8000000000 - 0xffffffbdbfff0000 ( 246 GB) [ 0.000000] vmemmap : 0xffffffbdc0000000 - 0xffffffbfc0000000 ( 8 GB maximum) [ 0.000000] 0xffffffbec0000000 - 0xffffffbee0000000 ( 512 MB actual) [ 0.000000] PCI I/O : 0xffffffbffa000000 - 0xffffffbffb000000 ( 16 MB) [ 0.000000] fixed : 0xffffffbffbdfd000 - 0xffffffbffbdff000 ( 8 KB) [ 0.000000] modules : 0xffffffbffc000000 - 0xffffffc000000000 ( 64 MB) [ 0.000000] memory : 0xffffffc000000000 - 0xffffffc800000000 ( 32768 MB) [ 0.000000] .init : 0xffffffc000abb000 - 0xffffffc000b52000 ( 604 KB) [ 0.000000] .text : 0xffffffc000080000 - 0xffffffc000abaf04 ( 10476 KB) [ 0.000000] .data : 0xffffffc000b57000 - 0xffffffc000c22200 ( 813 KB) [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=8, Nodes=1 [ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation. [ 0.000000] RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled. [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0 [ 0.000000] Architected cp15 timer(s) running at 50.00MHz (phys). [ 0.000002] sched_clock: 56 bits at 50MHz, resolution 20ns, wraps every 2748779069440ns [ 0.000069] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 0.000082] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 100.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=500000) [ 0.000087] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.000114] Security Framework initialized [ 0.000149] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized [ 0.000151] Yama: becoming mindful. [ 0.000218] Mount-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.000223] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.000602] Initializing cgroup subsys memory [ 0.000613] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [ 0.000617] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer [ 0.000621] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls [ 0.000624] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio [ 0.000628] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event [ 0.000631] Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio [ 0.000635] Initializing cgroup subsys hugetlb [ 0.000653] ftrace: allocating 26186 entries in 103 pages [ 0.011825] hw perfevents: enabled with arm/armv8-pmuv3 PMU driver, 5 counters available [ 0.011839] EFI services will not be available. [ 0.012826] CPU1: Booted secondary processor [ 0.012830] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU1 [ 0.012986] CPU2: Booted secondary processor [ 0.012989] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU2 [ 0.013131] CPU3: Booted secondary processor [ 0.013133] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU3 [ 0.013266] CPU4: Booted secondary processor [ 0.013269] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU4 [ 0.013410] CPU5: Booted secondary processor [ 0.013412] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU5 [ 0.013545] CPU6: Booted secondary processor [ 0.013548] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU6 [ 0.013687] CPU7: Booted secondary processor [ 0.013689] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU7 [ 0.013718] Brought up 8 CPUs [ 0.013730] SMP: Total of 8 processors activated. [ 0.014041] devtmpfs: initialized [ 0.014210] evm: security.selinux [ 0.014213] evm: security.SMACK64 [ 0.014215] evm: security.SMACK64EXEC [ 0.014217] evm: security.SMACK64TRANSMUTE [ 0.014218] evm: security.SMACK64MMAP [ 0.014220] evm: security.ima [ 0.014221] evm: security.capability [ 0.014288] DMI not present or invalid. [ 0.015620] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.041721] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 0.062855] cpuidle: using governor menu [ 0.062873] vdso: 2 pages (1 code @ ffffffc000b5d000, 1 data @ ffffffc000b5c000) [ 0.062891] hw-breakpoint: found 4 breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers. [ 0.063073] software IO TLB [mem 0x40ffc00000-0x4100000000] (4MB) mapped at [ffffffc0ffc00000-ffffffc0ffffffff] [ 0.063098] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic allocations [ 0.063149] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver [ 0.092496] vgaarb: loaded [ 0.092912] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 0.093060] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 0.093077] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 0.093106] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 0.093502] NetLabel: Initializing [ 0.093505] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 [ 0.093507] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 [ 0.093527] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default [ 0.093733] XGene: PCIe MSI driver v0.1 [ 0.093799] Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter [ 0.105421] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled [ 0.108389] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.108637] TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) [ 0.109303] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.109670] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) [ 0.109694] TCP: reno registered [ 0.109702] UDP hash table entries: 16384 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.109968] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 16384 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.110318] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.110432] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... [ 0.643283] Freeing initrd memory: 25380K (ffffffc7ee736000 - ffffffc7effff000) [ 0.643420] kvm [1]: Using HYP init bounce page @47d9f81000 [ 0.643500] kvm [1]: interrupt-controller@780c0000 IRQ5 [ 0.643620] kvm [1]: timer IRQ3 [ 0.643630] kvm [1]: Hyp mode initialized successfully [ 0.644165] futex hash table entries: 2048 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.644188] Initialise system trusted keyring [ 0.644241] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled) [ 0.644274] audit: type=2000 audit(0.640:1): initialized [ 0.644537] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages [ 0.646908] zpool: loaded [ 0.646914] zbud: loaded [ 0.647165] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 [ 0.647224] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.648060] fuse init (API version 7.23) [ 0.648294] Key type big_key registered [ 0.648686] Key type asymmetric registered [ 0.648692] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered [ 0.648771] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252) [ 0.648829] io scheduler noop registered [ 0.648835] io scheduler deadline registered (default) [ 0.648891] io scheduler cfq registered [ 0.649140] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [ 0.649151] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4 [ 0.649195] PCI host bridge /soc/pcie@1f500000 ranges: [ 0.649200] No bus range found for /soc/pcie@1f500000, using [bus 00-ff] [ 0.649208] MEM 0xa130000000..0xa1afffffff -> 0x30000000 [ 0.649236] xgene-pcie 1f500000.pcie: (rc) x8 gen-2 link up [ 0.649293] xgene-pcie 1f500000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00 [ 0.649297] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff] [ 0.649302] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xa130000000-0xa1afffffff] (bus address [0x30000000-0xafffffff]) [ 0.663919] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 15: assigned [mem 0xa130000000-0xa1307fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.663923] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 14: assigned [mem 0xa130800000-0xa1309fffff] [ 0.663928] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0xa130000000-0xa1307fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.664115] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xa130800000-0xa1308fffff 64bit] [ 0.664302] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0xa130900000-0xa1309fffff pref] [ 0.664347] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01] [ 0.664353] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xa130800000-0xa1309fffff] [ 0.664357] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xa130000000-0xa1307fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.664438] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 0.664442] pci 0000:01:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 0.664757] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 0.666978] console [ttyS0] disabled [ 0.667007] 1c021000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c021000 (irq = 27, base_baud = 3125000) is a 16550A [ 10.844289] console [ttyS0] enabled [ 10.888469] brd: module loaded [ 10.926227] loop: module loaded [ 10.964239] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed [ 11.013389] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6 [ 11.074003] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <m...@qualcomm.com> [ 11.148284] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 [ 11.199630] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver [ 11.277990] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver [ 11.331314] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver [ 11.405488] ohci-pci: OHCI PCI platform driver [ 11.458814] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver [ 11.535217] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 11.602163] i2c /dev entries driver [ 11.644061] platform soc:gpio_poweroff: Driver poweroff-gpio requests probe deferral [ 11.737220] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [ 11.792734] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.29.0-ioctl (2014-10-28) initialised: dm-de...@redhat.com [ 11.894072] Driver 'mmcblk' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [ 11.974576] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs [ 12.046811] TCP: cubic registered [ 12.086778] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 12.140462] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 12.193802] Key type dns_resolver registered [ 12.245240] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates [ 12.304120] Loaded X.509 cert 'Magrathea: Glacier signing key: e15f231a166c64ce4f1e4e2628af477f6ef725aa' [ 12.417953] registered taskstats version 1 [ 12.470230] Key type trusted registered [ 12.526931] Key type encrypted registered [ 12.575027] AppArmor: AppArmor sha1 policy hashing enabled [ 12.640858] ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass! [ 12.706728] evm: HMAC attrs: 0x1 [ 12.745753] platform soc:gpio_poweroff: Driver poweroff-gpio requests probe deferral [ 12.838725] /build/buildd/linux-3.19.0/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) [ 12.942592] Freeing unused kernel memory: 604K (ffffffc000abb000 - ffffffc000b52000) [ 13.035548] Freeing alternatives memory: 12K (ffffffc000b52000 - ffffffc000b55000) Loading, please [ 13.146139] random: systemd-udevd urandom read with 1 bits of entropy available wait... starting version 219 [ 13.260972] xgene-ahci 1a800000.sata: can't request region for resource [mem 0x1f23a000-0x1f23a0ff] [ 13.263634] mlx4_core: Mellanox ConnectX core driver v2.2-1 (Feb, 2014) [ 13.263640] mlx4_core: Initializing 0000:01:00.0 [ 13.511613] xgene-ahci: probe of 1a800000.sata failed with error -16 [ 20.415105] mlx4_core 0000:01:00.0: PCIe BW is different than device's capability [ 20.504928] mlx4_core 0000:01:00.0: PCIe link speed is 5.0GT/s, device supports 8.0GT/s [ 20.601005] mlx4_core 0000:01:00.0: PCIe link width is x8, device supports x8 [ 20.686813] mlx4_core 0000:01:00.0: Found no xgene,msi phandle [ 20.858281] platform soc:gpio_poweroff: Driver poweroff-gpio requests probe deferral [ 20.860717] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered [ 20.860719] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giome...@linux.it> [ 20.863075] PTP clock support registered [ 20.874252] mlx4_en: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v2.2-1 (Feb 2014) [ 20.874886] mlx4_en 0000:01:00.0: registered PHC clock [ 20.874947] mlx4_en 0000:01:00.0: Activating port:1 [ 20.892817] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 1: Using 64 TX rings [ 20.892819] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 1: Using 4 RX rings [ 20.892821] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 1: frag:0 - size:1518 prefix:0 stride:1536 [ 20.893092] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 1: Initializing port [ 20.894568] mlx4_en 0000:01:00.0: Activating port:2 [ 20.904386] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 2: Using 64 TX rings [ 20.904388] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 2: Using 4 RX rings [ 20.904390] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 2: frag:0 - size:1518 prefix:0 stride:1536 [ 20.904630] mlx4_en: 0000:01:00.0: Port 2: Initializing port [ 21.461432] mlx4_en: eth1: Link Up Begin: Loading e[ 22.095484] mlx4_en: eth0: Link Up ssential drivers ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Loading e[ 52.125818] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina ssential drivers[ 52.201240] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid ... done. Beg[ 52.281213] usbhid: USB HID core driver in: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/cloudimg-rootfs does not exist. Dropping to a shell! BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-9ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. 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