2.6.12 kernel panic after loading promise_sata module

2.6.12 kernel panic after loading promise_sata module

[Robert Gadsdon]

Tried 2.6.12 (vanilla) kernel, and had the following at boot:
(typed from screen)
.............
Starting balanced_irq
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
Mounted /proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs
input: AT Translated set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Creating /dev
Starting udev
Loading libata.ko module
Loading sata_promise.ko module
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

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Reverted to 2.6.11.11 and everything worked OK.

UDEV version is 058

SATA controller card (from lspci):
00:12.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 
PDC20318 (SATA150 TX4) (rev 02)

gcc version is 3.4.4


Robert Gadsdon

Re: 2.6.12 kernel panic after loading promise_sata module

[Robert Gadsdon]

My apologies. I had failed to notice that mkinitrd needed to be updated 
as well as udev..   Updated to version 4.2.16, and 2.6.12 boots OK.

Robert Gadsdon

Robert Gadsdon wrote:
> Tried 2.6.12 (vanilla) kernel, and had the following at boot:
> (typed from screen)
snip
> Starting udev
> Loading libata.ko module
> Loading sata_promise.ko module
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3

>