From: Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.ping.de>
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21.1 on Fedora Core 6 breaks LVM/vgscan
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:20:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070521182005.GA14390@oscar.prima.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705210632.l4L6Wkt0004225@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:02:46PM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> On 21 May 2007 I wrote:
>
> > Attempting to compile a 2.6.21.1 kernel for use on a Fedora Core 6 box
> > results in a panic at boot because the root filesystem can't be found.
>
> I have just compiled 2.6.22-rc2 with the configuration file given in my
> previous post and the resulting kernel successfully boots on the machine
> concerned. Whatever broke LVM for this machine in between 2.6.18 and
> 2.6.21.1 has now been fixed.
I recall that the device major number was moved to another place (253 ?)
Since this change caused many complaints, it was removed later on ...
> There is still a problem with the CDROM but I will follow up in another
> thread about that.
Did you mention ata_piix ?
With a recent git kernel, which I forgot, I was unable to read or eject
DVD's. (Un-encrypted, BTW).
Current git tree works fine again ...
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 6:32 2.6.21.1 on Fedora Core 6 breaks LVM/vgscan Jonathan Woithe
2007-05-21 18:20 ` Patrick Mau [this message]
2007-05-21 23:12 ` Jonathan Woithe
2007-05-26 16:23 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-30 19:22 ` Dave Jones
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2007-05-21 5:41 Jonathan Woithe
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