Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1

Grant Coady
2006-09-02T02:10:29Z

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:12:18 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote:

>On Friday 01 September 2006 21:06, Grant Coady wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:58:18 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc5/2.6.18-rc5-mm1/
>> ...
>> >- See the `hot-fixes' directory for any important updates to this patchset.
>> >
>> Okay, I applied hotfixes and it crashed on boot, keyboard LEDs flashing:
>>
>> Repeating message, hand copied:
>> atkbd.c: Spurious ACK in isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access
>> hardware directly.
>>
>
>Please try booting with i8042.panicblink=0 to see the real oops (important
>data). We should probably disable blinking if X is not active...

Please, yes ;) I always boot to CLI console, run linux boxen
mostly headless...

Now it say:
VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown-block(8,3)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3)
_

What next? (CC akpm removed 'cos bounced)

Grant.

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