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Bug#531129: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Failed to detect CDROM, hence boot process is slow



On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:39:11PM +0530, venigalla sayikiran wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>       I have used this CD-ROM earlier with debian etch and debian
> lenny also. Since i have used debian etch before, the CDROM worked
> fine with old version of kernel. I think the kernel version in etch
> was 2.6.18. Now lenny uses 2.6.26.2 kernel. In lenny too it worked
> fine without giving any problem. In fact, I even wrote the lenny ISO
> image on a CD some 8 months back.
>      But this problem occurred all of a sudden. Fortunately, I am able
> to use my CDROM normally. I can load and read data on CD.
>      I have done a lot of google search on this issue and have found
> other users facing a similar kind of problem. Then i decided to report
> this bug.
>      I thing I remember the day when this problem occurred, i had
> installed flight simulator from debian packages. After I uninstalled
> this package CDROM is working fine. Also the kernel/OS boots up in
> just 22secs.
 
I doubt there is any connection between that package and this bug.
I think that your CD-ROM drive occasionally misbehaves and that that
triggers the bug in the sata_nv driver.  It's hard to know for sure.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be
development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates

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