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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
To: "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 fails to detect aic7xxx
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:38:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4165A951.3060808@adaptec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4165A369.60306@cybsft.com>

K.R. Foley wrote:
> 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.

It is most likely the PCI ID patch which went into those drivers.
You can back out only that change (drivers/scsi/aic7xxx) and
try it.  (assuming you haven't changed anything else)

	Luben




  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-07 19:40 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 fails to detect aic7xxx Dave Hansen
2004-10-07 20:13 ` K.R. Foley
2004-10-07 20:38   ` Luben Tuikov [this message]
2004-10-07 20:45     ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-08  3:53     ` K.R. Foley
2004-10-07 20:39   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-07 20:41     ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-07 20:49     ` K.R. Foley
2004-10-07 22:42 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-10-08  3:57   ` K.R. Foley
2004-10-08 12:08     ` Luben Tuikov
2004-10-22 13:58       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-22 14:02         ` Luben Tuikov
2004-10-22 14:07           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-22 14:40             ` Luben Tuikov
2004-10-22 14:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-22 15:04                 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-10-22 17:36                   ` K.R. Foley

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