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From: David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>
To: Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: boot failure in 2.6.39.3
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:24:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311873840.3223.2.camel@montroll.chem.mcgill.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E312D95.6090805@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply.  I've posted a jpg of the last screen at

http://ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca/ronis/images/boot_crash.jpg

Note the material before the backtrace.  The disks and partitions seem
correct.

David


On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 10:36 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> David Ronis wrote:
> > I've just tried to upgrade from a slackware-2.6.37.6-huge (most drivers
> > are enabled at least as modules) to 2.6.39.3, built locally.   The
> > resulting kernel won't boot (generating an oops).   What I see on the
> > console is a list of the various disk partitions (sd driver) and then a
> > complaint about not being able to mount /dev/root.   (The older kernel
> > works fine-the disks using the ata_pixx driver).
> > 
> > My suspicion is that I've misconfigured the kernel.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Show the detail log of the oops?! Use a photo if necessary.
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27 23:08 boot failure in 2.6.39.3 David Ronis
2011-07-28  9:36 ` Dave Howorth
2011-07-28 17:24   ` David Ronis [this message]

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