Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc3

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Helge Hafting wrote:
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>>Can't open root dev "831" or unknown block(8,49)
>>Please append a correct root= boot option
>>unable to mount root fs from block(8,49)
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>Sounds like your SATA drive wasn't detected.
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>Please double-check that your config changes didn't disable it, but 
>otherwise:
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>>Now 2.6.14 works with exactly the same lilo.con,
>>where I have root=/dev/sdd1  (SATA drive)
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>please specify _which_ SATA driver you are using so that Jeff & co can try 
>to figure out what broke since 2.6.14.
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lspci says:
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA 
RAID Controller (rev 80)

My .config has "VIA SATA support" selected under "SCSI low-level drivers"

>Also, if you can pinpoint where it broke better, that probably helps 
>(most sata changes were in -rc1, but there were some sata_mv and sata_sil4 
>changes in in -rc2 too, so even just poinpointing it to either of those 
>will help, although the daily builds might be even better).
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I tried compiling and booting rc1.  The machine is remote, and did not
come up.  So I don't know why it didn't come up, but it is likely
that it is the same problem.

Helge Hafting