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From: "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 fails to detect aic7xxx
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:13:29 -0500
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To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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Dave Hansen wrote:
> I just booted 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 and got the good ol' 
> 
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> backing out bk-scsi.patch seems to fix it.  I believe this worked in
> 2.6.9-rc3-mm2.
> 
> -- Dave

While I can't verify that backing out bk-scsi.patch fixes it for me yet, 
I can verify that I get the exact same error trying to boot this kernel. 
I too am using the aic7xxx.

kr