From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751877AbWEPQu7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:50:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751876AbWEPQu7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:50:59 -0400 Received: from mailfe01.swip.net ([212.247.154.1]:55689 "EHLO swip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751873AbWEPQu6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:50:58 -0400 X-T2-Posting-ID: 6GBUGr3zkYYCG9T7x2Ik0yQrRuFhZLxyP+8apJj5Sjg= X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] From: "Leopold Gouverneur" Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 18:50:54 +0200 To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 panic on boot Message-ID: <20060516165054.GA8192@localhost> References: <20060516001501.GA7528@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:45:38AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <20060516001501.GA7528@localhost> > By author: lgouv@tele2.be > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Just upgraded from rc3-mm4. > > Panic on boot with this message (copied by hand ): > > kinit:do_mount > > kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda8) = dev (0,0) > > kinit:rot_dev = dev (0,0) > > kinit root_dev = dev (0,0) > > kinit trying to mount /dev/root on /root > > ........... > > /dev/hda8 is my root partition but I suppose dev (0,0) is the first > > partition on hda which is FAT. > > I tried vanilla rc4 with the same result. > > > > This means kinit couldn't find a name-to-number mapping for the string > /dev/hda8. However, you said you tried vanilla rc4 with the same > result, and vanilla rc4 doesn't use klibc. Sorry for my silliness, actually rc4 boot OK > > This means hda8 simply isn't discovered on your system, which probably > means hda isn't discovered. This typically is an issue with your > kernel configuration, but it's not always. yes that was my problem: rc4-mm1 need CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_AMD=y which -rc4 don't for my nForce2 ide controller. many thankx