Debian 10 Boot Errors
While testing Debian 10 in VirtualBox I saw the following messages with each start:
ata2 master: Unknown device
ata2 slave: Unknown device
ata3 master: Unknown device
ata3 slave: Unknown device
Additionally I noticed the boot time was slow along with a boat load of SATA link down messages up to ata30.
After some head scratching I found the VirtualBox Storage->Port Count configuration was set to 30. Changing that number to 3 resolved both boot issues. I have no idea how the number was set so high.
Posted: Category: Usability Tagged: Debian
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