After a new install on my newly-built HTPC, I can't boot! I end up in initramfs every time, and get lots of ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=16)
Full error here:
ata2.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:60:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 96 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
ata2.00: COMRESET failed (errno=16)
The machine:
- Board: ASUS AT3IONT-I Duluxe
- 2Gigs of OCZ Ram
- 80GB Western Digital Laptop Harddrive
- Ubuntu 11.04 Minimal
More details:
- I've done multiple re-installs
- I've done a disk check
- I've done a CPU check
- I've done a memory check
- I've filled the
first and last million bytes with zeros using Ultimate Boot CD - Checked SATA ports are enabled
- Tried RAID, SATA, and AHCI modes
- Tried all new sata cables.
- Tried booting Arch from a USB – similar error:
[sda] No caching mode page present
andError: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds
, then chucked into initramfs.
Help?
Best Answer
I had this problem just now. Apparently it looks like a problem with a hard disk partition. I solved it like this:
exit
.I noticed that the
/home
was not mounted when I checked in the initramfs. This should be because of your hard drive. Everything was fine when I did a normal shutdown of my system a month ago. This just happend when I started it today.Anyways my system is up now. :-)