New F7 install crashes on boot -

[Bob Goodwin]

Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>   
>> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
>>     
>
> I had a laptop I upgraded that showed similar intractable symptoms...
> it was able to boot after I physically removed the DVD drive from the
> laptop.  Since the same setup worked fine with older kernels I guess it
> will be able to go back in there one day when a later kernel can cope
> with the motherboard controller chipset or the DVD device or whatever it
> is it didn't like.
>
> -Andy
>   

Interesting you should mention the DVD drive.  I had returned a CD/DVD 
drive to LiteOn under warranty about a month ago and it came back the 
other day, looked used but had a different serial number.  I figured 
they were playing "musical chairs" with the equipment but installed it 
in what had been an F7 computer I thought was working well and 
immediately began to see seg faults! 

I put the old drive back, same problem!  That would seem to vindicate 
the replacement drive would it not, or had it done damage to something 
else?  I absolutely dread another telephone session with LiteOn tech 
support, it took five calls to get them to agree to accept the drive for 
"repair" initially.  Only way I could do that was to put another old 
hard drive in the computer and install Windows 2000 on it, better to 
take the forty dollar loss I think.

Bob Goodwin