I have a kernel error showing on the boot screen

English Install/Boot/Login
1

Why is the following message appearing on my boot screen?

spi-nor spi0.1: probe with driver spi-nor failed with error -22

should I be worried about this?
I am experiencing random system crash/reboots with my laptop!
R

2

Try intelmetool -m (you may have to install coreboot-utils).

3

finally got coreboot-utils to install and then ran intelmetool to run with error

Error mapping physical memory 0x00000000f7e1e000 [0x2000] ERRNO=1 Operation not permitted
Could not map ME setup memory.
Do you have kernel cmdline argument ‘iomem=relaxed’ set ?
how do I achieve this?

4 
sudo update-bootloader --add-option "iomem=relaxed"
sudo update-bootloader --config
sudo reboot
5

Hi, knurpht, you’ve been really helpful, much appreciated. However, I now have this readout from:

Ursuletz:/home/Steph # intelmetool -m
MEI found: [8086:8c3a] 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1

ME Status : 0x1e000245
ME Status 2 : 0x66002306

ME: FW Partition Table : OK
ME: Bringup Loader Failure : NO
ME: Firmware Init Complete : YES
ME: Manufacturing Mode : NO
ME: Boot Options Present : NO
ME: Update In Progress : NO
ME: Current Working State : Normal
ME: Current Operation State : M0 with UMA
ME: Current Operation Mode : Normal
ME: Error Code : No Error
ME: Progress Phase : Host Communication
ME: Power Management Event : Pseudo-global reset
ME: Progress Phase State : Host communication established

ME: Extend SHA-256: 065a7d52a14c0fa61751139c038c68b73afe62a30778d03b0e277f88134201e9

ME: Firmware Version 9.1.1008.30 (code) 9.1.1008.30 (recovery) 9.1.1000.10 (fitc)

ME: timeout waiting for data: expected 5, available 0
ME: GET FWCAPS message failed

6

I get almost the same readout from a 10yr old laptop, mine does not even get the firmware version:

ME: timeout waiting for data: expected 8, available 0
ME: GET FW VERSION message failed

Most likely a non-compliant firmware (aka BIOS) or an old version.
Check if you can get a firmware update, otherwise live with it.

7

Hi, OrsoBruno. Not solved so, Yes, I’ll have to live with it!
Regards
Roci.

8

Please, please, please, use markdown for posting output. Either use the </> button in the editor, or put " ``` " on a blank line before and after the output. That shows the output like you see it in your terminal.

1 Like
9

I wonder, was this a fresh install, and when the install was completed, did you already have a boot error?