Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S273252AbTHKSzx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:55:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S273184AbTHKSyt (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:54:49 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.AT ([212.16.59.250]:64188 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272975AbTHKSxS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:53:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:53:27 +0200 From: Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= To: Norbert Preining Cc: Andrew Morton , gaxt@rogers.com, henrik@fangorn.dk, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org, babydr@baby-dragons.com, len.brown@intel.com Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs Message-ID: <20030811185326.GB25186@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Norbert Preining , Andrew Morton , gaxt@rogers.com, henrik@fangorn.dk, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org, babydr@baby-dragons.com, len.brown@intel.com References: <20030809090718.GA10360@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20030809130641.A8174@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20030809090718.GA10360@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <01a201c35e65$0536ef60$ee52a450@theoden> <3F34D0EA.8040006@rogers.com> <20030810211745.GA5327@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20030810154343.351aa69d.akpm@osdl.org> <20030811053437.GA19040@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20030811145940.GF4562@www.13thfloor.at> <20030811154009.GE6763@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030811154009.GE6763@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1322 Lines: 48 Hi Norbert! your config seems reasonable to me ... > I tells me all the usual stuff concerning that it finds > the controllers (VIA and HPT) and disks/cdroms, but than > hangs with > cannot mount rootfs "NULL" or hdb1 AFAIK, there is no such message in 2.6.0-test3 ... if, on the other hand, the message looks like ... ----------- VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option ----------- then this means that "hdb1" was the device given at the kenel command line (as root=/dev/hdb1) and the 'unknown-block(0,0)' is the major/minor the kernel recognized ... you should pay special attention to the disc/partition discovery done by the IDE subsystem ... ----------- ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 65537 sectors (33 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=65/16/63 hda: hda1 hdb: 131074 sectors (67 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=130/16/63 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 ... ----------- maybe you could attach a serial console (line) and capture the boot process, and report it ... HTH, Herbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/