Re: 2.6.19 does not boot, while 2.6.19-rc4 does

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:28:59 +0100 Norbert Preining wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> [Please Cc]
> 
> I copied my old config-2.6.19-rc4 to a clean linux-2.6.19 tree, called
> make oldconfig; make, installed the kernel and modules, but the kernel
> cannot find the root file system.
> 
> I diffed the two config files and the only not-comment diff is:
> -# CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL is not set
> +CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
> (how did this happen?)

The default changed from n to y.

> a part of the dmesg is included here (from -rc4):
> 
> libata version 2.00 loaded.
> ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00ac6
> ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x18B0 irq 14
> ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x18B8 irq 15
> scsi0 : ata_piix
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
> ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 195371568 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
> ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> scsi1 : ata_piix

That didn't help (me).

> Hardware: Acer TravelMate 3012
> 
> 
> Any suggestions what to do next?

Test 2.6.19-rc5, 2.6.19-rc6, and then use git snapshots or
git bisect to focus in on the breakage.

And post more complete boot logs.

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~Randy