Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751141AbVK3I4Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:56:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751149AbVK3I4Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:56:25 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:53697 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751141AbVK3I4Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:56:25 -0500 Message-ID: <438D69FF.2090002@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:59:43 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Helge Hafting , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc3 References: <20051129213656.GA8706@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1496 Lines: 53 Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: > > >>Can't open root dev "831" or unknown block(8,49) >>Please append a correct root= boot option >>unable to mount root fs from block(8,49) >> >> > >Sounds like your SATA drive wasn't detected. > >Please double-check that your config changes didn't disable it, but >otherwise: > > > >>Now 2.6.14 works with exactly the same lilo.con, >>where I have root=/dev/sdd1 (SATA drive) >> >> > >please specify _which_ SATA driver you are using so that Jeff & co can try >to figure out what broke since 2.6.14. > > > lspci says: 0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) My .config has "VIA SATA support" selected under "SCSI low-level drivers" >Also, if you can pinpoint where it broke better, that probably helps >(most sata changes were in -rc1, but there were some sata_mv and sata_sil4 >changes in in -rc2 too, so even just poinpointing it to either of those >will help, although the daily builds might be even better). > > I tried compiling and booting rc1. The machine is remote, and did not come up. So I don't know why it didn't come up, but it is likely that it is the same problem. Helge Hafting - 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/