[Leaplist] Fedora Core 6 ata1: Error - fails to boot

[David Harris]

--- Shaun Westling <belldandyfanboy at yahoo.com> wrote:
snip....
 However, the new Fedora Core 6 has 2 very bothersome
> errors! I fixed the second error, but I'm afraid
> there
> isn't a solution to the first one. Don't worry if
> you
> have no idea what the problem is. I'd at least like
> to
> share it with you.


> 1) on boot it will often say:
>
> ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs)
>
> The system will display that a few times, then
> completely fail to boot. This happens 3-6 reboots in
> a
> row before a successful boot! I guess some kind of
> compatibility issue between the Linux SATA driver
> and
> my hard drive.
>
> I don't know

> 2) unable to start the httpd service
> this is bad because I am installing fedora JUST to
> be
> a web server! I, with much trouble, found the
> problem
> to be that they left off the quotation marks "" on a
> line in the httpd config file! a beginners mistake!
> I
> don't know how to report it, or I would, but at
> least
> it's an easy fix.

Hey Shaun,
    I'm not sure what's causing the ata1 error
message, and since your machine won't boot, I'm not
sure how much usefull information (if any) could be in
/var/log/messages, but it couldn't hurt a look.
I hope you don't mind, but I'm forwarding this message
to LEAP (since I don't currently use Fedora Core)  to
see if any of the guys there have any idea as to
what's going on (since I know a few of the members use
Fedora Core).

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing
the ata1 error and/or atleast how to prevent Fedora
from not booting?  Thanks.