From: "Miguel A. Bolanos" <mike@costarica.net>
To: shoninnaive@sbcglobal.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 series IDE troubles
Date: 21 Feb 2003 10:15:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1045844131.2619.7.camel@nemesis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030221080120.45d30fec.home@lfs.pitchblende.org>
Greetings John,
Please read /usr/src/linux-2.4/REPORTING-BUGS
Providing the info requested there, you will help the developers find a
solutions to this sooner.
Thanks
Mike
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 07:01, j wrote:
> Hello,
>
> IM not sure this is the way to go about this (obviously) but doing
> searchs at google for the error message I get just leads to the painful realization that there are many questions out there but
> few answers. Anyhoo when I try adding a compact flash card as an
> IDE drive to a system running under 2.4 I get kernel panics:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "307" or 03:07
> Please append a corect "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root
>
> Just on a lark I decided to go back to a 2.2 series kernel (since
> I had gotten flash recognized b4 when using a Mandrake distro)
> Eureka! working flash drive that is seen and formatable with no
> troubles. PLEASE have the developers take a closer look at the IDE
> drivers for 2.4 as it seems they cause a great deal of grief, at
> least from what I see in searchs on these errors. Usually the problem
> is blamed on the user and they are asked hundreds of irritating questions about hardware and configuration.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Sims
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 13:01 2.4 series IDE troubles j
2003-02-21 16:15 ` Miguel A. Bolanos [this message]
2003-02-21 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-21 16:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-02-21 18:59 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-22 19:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-02-22 21:39 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-21 21:13 Dag Bakke
2003-02-21 23:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-22 8:49 ` Dag Bakke
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