Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964979AbXBYQGP (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964981AbXBYQGP (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500 Received: from smtp-out12.alice.it ([85.37.17.107]:2791 "EHLO smtp-out12.alice.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964979AbXBYQGO (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:06:14 -0500 Message-ID: <45E1B3E6.60403@alice.it> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:05:58 +0100 From: Mario Vanoni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061222 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16.41 & 2.6.18.7 OK, 2.6.19.5 NOT, 2.6.18.8 KERNEL PANIC References: <45E05D54.10508@alice.it> <20070224201902.a2a7b3da.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070224201902.a2a7b3da.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Feb 2007 16:06:00.0482 (UTC) FILETIME=[D78BF020:01C758F6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1512 Lines: 46 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:44:20 +0100 Mario Vanoni wrote: > >> 2.6.18.7 vanilla & 2.6.16.41 vanilla: >> /dev/hda CD/DVD >> /dev/hda1 / IDE HD 160GB >> /dev/hda2 swap >> /dev/sda1 /xyz SATA HD 320GB >> /dev/sda2 swap >> /dev/sdb1 /zzz SATA HD 320GB >> /dev/sdb2 swap >> /dev/sdc1 /usb USB KEY 512MB > For 2.6.19.*, does .config contain any CONFIG_ATA* entries? > FYI, in 2.6.19, CONFIG_SCSI_SATA* config symbols were renamed to > CONFIG_ATA*, so just using an oldconfig won't be sufficient > for SATA support. You are 100% right, I was lazy, thanks for the gentle blame. 2.6.19.5 vanilla works perfectly, 2.6.20.1 vanilla too! >> --- >> 2.6.18.8 vanilla: !!! >> screen eating leftmost characters, then >> kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on >> unknown-block(3,65) >> POWER SWITCH ultima ratio >> --- Strange error, due to a partially corrupted MBR (?): 2.6.19.5 with incorrect .config, lilo, SATA missing reboot with old 2.6.18.7, OK 2.6.18.8 with old .config from 2.6.18.6, lilo objects not seeing /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, reboot and kernel panic, reboot with 2.6.18.7, OK 2.6.18.8 make mrproper and rm -r /lib/modules/2.6.18.8 make bzImage etc., lilo: 2.6.18.8 works perfectly. Many thanks and kind regards Mario Vanoni - 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/