Does anyone have Kernel 2.6.20-11 booting on an Intel Mini?

[Darrena]

I am running Feisty on my Intel Mac Mini but starting with kernel 2.6.20-9 it won't boot. If I remove the splash and quiet I see that it is unable to set xfer rate on the drive and keeps trying slower speeds until it fails.

It boots fine on 2.6.20-8, is anyone else seeing this issue?

Thanks!

[wigglydiggly]

I have the exact same problem. Everytime there is a kernel upgrade I have to edit GRUB to auto start 2.6.20-8 because on Macbook C2Dual I have no keyboard until kernal loaded. If anyone knows how to workaround please post.

Thanks in advance

[rei_t_ex]

Same problem here with a Macbook CoreDuo. It looks as if it is a problem with how the new kernels treat our SATA hard drives (or controllers?). 2.6.20-9 works for for me, but all higher versions give an

ATA abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x20DF
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qctimeout cmd 0x27
failed to st xfermode (err_mask=0x40)

Apparently, there is a bug about this on launchpad about this here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/91940

Could anyone more knowledgeable please confirm that the only thing left to do for now is to use the old kernels?

[Darrena]

It's a good sign that one of the Ubuntu Dev's confirmed the bug in the report, hopefully one of the upcoming kernel updates will fix this.

[Darrena]

It is looked like this is fixed in 2.6.20-12

[sleeperknight]

where do you find the kernel release notes?

[rei_t_ex]

Yup, the new kernel fixes it for me as well. Thank you, developers!

[Tribe]

Hi there,

2.6.20-9 to 11 didn't boot for me in a MacBook Pro C2D and -12 does and it seems very well, now i even got the backlight thing working :)

Bye

[vh1]

Yup, the new kernel fixes it for me as well. Thank you, developers!

same deal with me. I have a macbook c2d and only 2.6.20-9 would work. 2.6.20-12 has the issue solved!