[Bug 658560] Re: Kernel Oops with Maverick in ahci_stop_engine

2010-10-12 Thread Avi Carmi
Thank you for your help. I believe that I have the latest BIOS. No I don't, upgrading to A08 dated 9/17/10 right now. I am not sure how to change kernels, do I use the update manager? I have only two kernels in the boot choice (plus memtest and the old Windows partition), and only the older

[Bug 658560] Re: Kernel Oops with Maverick in ahci_stop_engine

2010-10-12 Thread Avi Carmi
FYI: found this work around in another thread: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/659149 Following this link : http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/16/323 I found a temporary solution : by inserting pci=nocrs in the kernel line in grub -- Kernel Oops with Maverick in ahci_stop_engine

[Bug 659149] Re: Ubuntu10.10: kernel 2.6.35-22 cannot find intern hard drives.

2010-10-12 Thread Avi Carmi
Hi all, I have the same identical problem as Trigger (and Matt, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/653238). Same DELL Precision T3500 there is a new A08 BIOS dated 9/17/10 available from Dell, which I'll install as soon as I am done posting.

[Bug 653238] Re: maverick kernel 2.6.35-22 panics when booting on Dell Precision T3500

2010-10-12 Thread Avi Carmi
I have the same identical problem as Matt (and Trigger, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/659149). Same DELL Precision T3500 there is a new A08 BIOS dated 9/17/10 available from Dell, which I'll install as soon as I am done posting.

[Bug 659149] Re: Ubuntu10.10: kernel 2.6.35-22 cannot find intern hard drives.

2010-10-12 Thread Avi Carmi
the A08 BIOS update did not resolve the problem. pci=nocrs does work with the Ubuntu kernel. did not yet try the test patched kernel (got to get some real work done...) -avi -- Ubuntu10.10: kernel 2.6.35-22 cannot find intern hard drives. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/659149 You received

[Bug 653238] Re: maverick kernel 2.6.35-22 panics when booting on Dell Precision T3500

2010-10-12 Thread Avi Carmi
the A08 BIOS update did not resolve the problem. pci=nocrs does work with the Ubuntu kernel. did not yet try the test patched kernel (got to get some real work done...) -avi -- maverick kernel 2.6.35-22 panics when booting on Dell Precision T3500 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653238 You

[Bug 658560] Re: Kernel Oops with Maverick in ahci_stop_engine

2010-10-12 Thread Avi Carmi
as mentioned earlier, the A08 BIOS update did not resolve the problem. pci=nocrs does work with the 10.10 Ubuntu kernel and A08 BIOS (did not try the older kernel with A08) did not yet try the test patched kernel from #2, since I can boot with pci=nocrs and I need to get some real work done...

[Bug 658560] Re: Kernel Oops with Maverick in ahci_stop_engine

2010-10-11 Thread Avi Carmi
Dell T3500 worked just fine with 10.04 upgraded to 10.10 using update manager, and it won't boot. I get white text on black background, not even sure what I am looking at... dropped me into some kind of shell? tried booting from the 10.10 install CD (which I burned to install on another