From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263662AbTLDWvy (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:51:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263666AbTLDWvw (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:51:52 -0500 Received: from out006pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.106]:50572 "EHLO out006.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263662AbTLDWvk (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:51:40 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net To: "Rahsheen Porter Sr." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HPT366 not booting with 2.6.0tests Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:51:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20031204160753.3bd3879a.microrahsheen@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20031204160753.3bd3879a.microrahsheen@comcast.net> Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312041751.35707.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [151.205.10.15] at Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:51:38 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 04 December 2003 16:07, Rahsheen Porter Sr. wrote: >I've been trying to get one of the 2.6.0-test kernels to work for a >while now and have been having no luck. > >Latest attempt was that I compiled 2.6.0-test11. I compiled in >ext3 and HPT366/37. My root partition is /dev/hde1 and is ext3. The >kernel boots and recognizes the HPT366 controller just fine, but it >doesn't actually ackknowledge ide2 and ide3 as it should. It only > sees ide0 and ide1. This results in a kernel panic: > >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(33,1) Been there, done that, even bought the T-shirt... That error here has historically been a typu in the lilo.conf or grub.conf, wrong pointer to the / filesystems partition. So check your root(hd0:0) line. Compare it with a good boots setting. >This has been working fine with 2.4.20. I tried coping the .config >directly and doing "make oldconfig". I've started from scratch. I've >toyed with booting off-board chipsets first (which doesn't seem to > apply anyway), and I'm just stumped at this point. Any ideas? > >this is an Abit BP6 dual Celeron system. >/dev/hda is ide-cdrom (seen at boot) >/dev/hdb is ide-scsi zip-drive >/dev/hdc is ide-scsi cdwriter (seen at boot) >/dev/hdd is an ide-disk >/dev/hde is an ide-disk > >(attached is my .config) > >Thanks in advance for any help. :) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.