From: "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: haveblue@us.ibm.com, 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 15:49:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4165ABE3.8000504@cybsft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041007133956.39c2427e.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com> 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.
>>
>
>
> Were some earlier messages printed out, during the scsi bringup stage?
>
> A full dmesg dump would be nice.
>
Yes it would. Unfortunately I am not near the machine right now. I do
know that there is not much info being displayed prior to the failure
message listed above and I don't have a serial console on this system
currently. I will be glad to try to dig into it further when I get home
in a few hours.
kr
next prev parent 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
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 [this message]
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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