Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S273403AbTHKWIq (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:08:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274813AbTHKWIq (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:08:46 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:36056 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S273403AbTHKWIo (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:08:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:50:58 +0200 To: 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: <20030811215058.GA24474@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> References: <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> <20030811185326.GB25186@www.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030811185326.GB25186@www.13thfloor.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Norbert Preining Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3509 Lines: 100 On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Herbert P?tzl wrote: > your config seems reasonable to me ... Good to know. > ----------- > VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > ----------- Yes, it is like this. > maybe you could attach a serial console (line) > and capture the boot process, and report it ... I copied most of it to paper, so here it is, for sure with some typing errors: Everything up to hear I couldn't read (maybe I find a laptop or other device for serial communication): VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000::00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: IC35L040AVER07-0 .... hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffcfa) **** this line only with acpi **** when running with acpi=off it **** does not occur hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0 .... ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1402, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 HPT370A: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0e.0 HPT370A: chipset revision 4 HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock HPT370A: 100% native mode on IRQ 11 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio hde: Maxtor 52049H4, ATA DISK drive ide2 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xd402 on irq 11 hdg: IBM-DTTA-350840, ATA DISK drive ide3 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 11 hda: max request size 128 KiB hda: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=5005/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: max request size 128 KiB hdb: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100) hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11 hdb12> hde: max request size 128 KiB hde: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63, UDMA(100) hde: hde1 hdg: max request size 128 KiB hdg: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/467KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33) hdg: hdg1 hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.31 hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM .... Console ... ... blabla ... VFS: cannot mount ... So it looks like my disks are recognized, the partitions are recognized, but somehow I am missing the ide-disk attached or similar message. Maybe this helps someone to have an idea! Best wishes and thanks a lot Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norbert Preining Technische Universit?t Wien gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WIVENHOE (n.) The cry of alacrity with which a sprightly eighty-year-old breaks the ice on the lake when going for a swim on Christmas Eve. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff - 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/