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Unable to install 12.04 on Giada N20: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }

Asked by Renaud Leroy on 2012-04-28

HI all !
On a brand new Giada N20 (mini pc) i was able to install and use windoz for days/weeks, so it's not a hardware -disk- problem i suppose...
When i try to install 12.04 (several versions tried : i386, x64, alternate) with unetbootin on usb, i 've got a lot of errors (see below) referring to ata1 device...
cf:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/949428/

Mostly are :
ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata1.00: error: { UNC }
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
and so on....

i tried to boot and install 12.04 specifying noapic and acpi=off ==> same...
Any help appreciated...

Thanks in advance any clue !?? if you need some files ..debug...etc

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2012-04-29
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2012-04-30
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #1

Are there any bugs reported?
Do other distros (Like openSuse) boot ok?

Renaud Leroy (renaudleroy) said : #2

Is there something related to "http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1034762.html" :
I created a new file, /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf and put the "options libata noacpi=1" in there. Seemed to fix the problem.

??

Renaud Leroy (renaudleroy) said : #3

actually it's just an extract of a link found on Internet.. problem is not solved for me....; )

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #4

Try the boot option:

libata.noacpi=1

Renaud Leroy (renaudleroy) said : #5

I booted on a usb key :
UNetbootin Menu:
Install Ubuntu then TAB

I added the option at the end :
> /casper/vmlinuz initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash -- libata.noacpi=1

Note there were error messages from udevd before displaying the logo (pink screen) Ubuntu, then same errors messages in a console added..
ata1.00: BMDMD stat 0x24
ata1.00: failed command READ DMA EXT
...etc

Renaud Leroy (renaudleroy) said : #6

HI, Do you need some log files, details to look at ?
As said above the boot option libata.noacpi=1 did NOT solve the problem.

Thanks

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #7

Try installing 10.04 then upgrade directly to 12.04

May help

Renaud Leroy (renaudleroy) said : #8

10.04 has the same behavior.. i tried to install it already. --> same error messages
FYI i tried with Linux Mint too, same result, same errors. --> same error messages

Renaud Leroy (renaudleroy) said : #9

Tried with these boot options too without success :

libata.dma=6

libata.force=0:pio4

libata.force=0:udma5

libata atapi_passthru16=0

Renaud Leroy (renaudleroy) said : #10

any news ?

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #11

Did you try the Lucid install then upgrade to Precise?

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