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Subject: Re: totally random "VFS: Cannot open root device"
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:07:06 +0100
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To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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Hi,

(Please CC me your answers as I am not subscribed.)

Tejun Heo wrote:
[...]
> Can you please post dmesg of a successful booting?  That will tell us 
> which SATA controller/disks you are using.  Also, the boot log of a 
> failed boot will be very helpful - the best way to get this is via 
> serial console.  If you don't have access to serial console, taking note 
>   / picture of the part where SATA detection fails will do too.

I've placed the dmesg and the picture of panic here: http://26143.eq.cz/

> 
> Also, when the machine boots successfully, does it work without 
> generating disk related kernel logs?  Just perform any IO-heavy 
> operations - cp'ing directories which contain large files, 
> tar/untarring... - and see if the kernel complains about anyting.
> 

There are no signs of anything wrong in logs, all my IO tests passed ok.

Regards,

r.