Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to boot on T41 Thinkpads

From	Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to boot on T41 Thinkpads
Date	2022-02-21 15:10 +0100
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Hi

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 10:04:14PM +0100, Petra R.-P. wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.16.7-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This new kernel version does not boot on two fairly similar
> old IBM T41 Thinkpads.
> 
> What reproducibly happens is as follows:
> 
> After the lines
> 
>    Loading Linux 5.16.0-1-686 ...
>    Loading initial ramdisk ...
> 
> the screen gets flushed, and I see:
>    
>    [  4.xxxxxx] ata1.00: Read log 0x00 page 0x00 failed  Emask 0x1
>    <blinking cursur>
> 
> The "xxxxxx" vary for every try.
> 
> Then nothing else happens.
> Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect.
> I have to reset the computer by pressing the button.
> 
> On an old PC running the same kernel the same message "ata1.00: Read log ..."
> appears, but then the boot process continues normally.
> 
> linux-image-5.15.0-3-686, which I am using to write this
> message, runs fine.

Are you booting in quite mode? if yes, can you remote if from the
kernel command line and see if you get more information on the screen?

Got off-bug a report from someone with similar Hardware with similar
symptoms.

From the failed boot, can you extract the kernel logs produced?

Regards,
Salvatore

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Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to boot on T41 Thinkpads Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2022-02-21 15:10 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to  boot on T41 Thinkpads "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2022-02-21 15:10 +0100
  Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to boot on T41 Thinkpads Petra Rübe-Pugliese <debml@prp.in-berlin.de> - 2022-02-21 17:30 +0100
    Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to boot on T41 Thinkpads Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2022-03-05 18:30 +0100
      Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to boot on T41 Thinkpads Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2022-03-06 00:50 +0100

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