From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751704AbWEPIp4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 04:45:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751701AbWEPIp4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 04:45:56 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:61874 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbWEPIpz (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 04:45:55 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 panic on boot Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 01:45:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, with we do not fancy Message-ID: References: <20060516001501.GA7528@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1147769138 31671 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2006 08:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 08:45:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. 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. There should be somewhere in your boot messages a message such as the following: Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 Does this show up in your successful boots? Failing boots? -hpa