Re: Regression from 7627a0edef54 ("ata: ahci: Drop low power policy board type") on reboot (but not cold boot)

[Niklas Cassel]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 03:58:30PM +0100, Eric wrote:
> Hi Niklas
> 
> Le 03/03/2025 à 07:25, Niklas Cassel a écrit :
> > So far, this just sounds like a bug where UEFI cannot detect your SSD.
> Bit it is detected during cold boot, though.
> > UEFI problems should be reported to your BIOS vendor.
> I'll try to see what can be done, however I am not sure how responsive they
> will be for this board...
> > 
> > It would be interesting to see if _Linux_ can detect your SSD, after a
> > reboot, without UEFI involvement.
> > 
> > If you kexec into the same kernel as you are currently running:
> > https://manpages.debian.org/testing/kexec-tools/kexec.8.en.html
> > 
> > Do you see your SSD in the kexec'd kernel?
> 
> Sorry, I've tried that using several methods (systemctl kexec / kexec --load
> + kexec -e / kexec --load + shutdown --reboot now) and it failed each time.
> I *don't* think it is related to this bug, however, because each time the
> process got stuck just after displaying "kexec_core: Starting new kernel".

I just tired (as root):
# kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64 --initrd=/boot/initramfs-6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64.img --reuse-cmd
# kexec -e

and FWIW, kexec worked fine.

Did you specify an initrd ? did you specify --reuse-cmd ?

If not, please try it.


It would be interesting to see if Linux can detect your SATA drive after
a kexec. If it can't, then we need to report the issue to your drive
vendor (Samsung).


Kind regards,
Niklas