Re: Can't make XFS work with 2.6.6

[David Aubin <daubin@actuality-systems.com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 12:55, David Aubin wrote:
> Your ide support is compiled as a module.  If you are not calling out
> the module
> in your initrc, then you will get this.  Go back and compile in your
> ide support
> or scsi support as compiled in options.  Both are currently built as
> modules.
> 
> Dave Aubin
> 
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 12:36, David Johnson wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm having a problem getting my system to boot with 2.6.6 and a XFS root 
> > filesystem. On boot it can't mount the root fs:
> > 
> > XFS: Bad magic number
> > XFS: SB validate failed
> > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> > 
> > XFS is compiled in so it's not a module problem. Google says this error is 
> > usually caused by passing the wrong root parameter to the kernel, but I'm 
> > definitely giving the right root device.
> > 
> > I can boot just fine with 2.4.25 using exactly the same boot options in Grub.
> > I attach my .config. I'd be very greatful for any help with this. I've tried 
> > recompiling with XFS as a module and checked my version of xfsprogs meets the 
> > requirements.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > David.