Re: Boot issues with a Dell Inspiron 530 and 8.0 RC1

2009/10/6 Christian Schmidt <schmidt_chr_at_gmx.net>:
> Hello list,
>
> I am seeing a strange issue with my Dell Inspiron 530 with 8.0 RC1-p1
> at around 50-75% percent of all boots. It all boils down to GENERIC
> throwing the following:
>
> AP #1 (PHY #1) failed!
> panic y/n? [y] panic: bye-bye
> cpuid = 0
>
> However, this only happens when booting from the hard disk. A boot
> from the install CD works perfectly every time. Testing the machine
> with 7.2 last night revealed the same issue, so this is not specific
> to 8.0
> As an interesting side-note: the odds of a successful boot increase
> dramtically when cold-booting. Rebooting from e.g. Linux or Windows
> seems to push the failure-rate to around a 100% every time.
>
> The system itself is almost completely Intel. Some specifications:
> Intel 82801 PCI Bridge
> Intel G33/G31/P35/P31 PCIe
> Intel ICH9 SMBus
>

I got an advice to try to update BIOS for a similar problem (visible in 6.x).
Unfortunately it's not easy in my environment.
Could you try that way and report?

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