From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759166AbWLISjg (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:39:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759165AbWLISjg (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:39:36 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:31604 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759166AbWLISjf (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:39:35 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:39:54 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Norbert Preining Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19 does not boot, while 2.6.19-rc4 does Message-Id: <20061209103954.868f818a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20061209152859.GA14037@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20061209152859.GA14037@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. --- ~Randy