Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>>>* K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>For me, this one wants to panic on boot when trying to find the root 
>>>>>filesystem. Acts like either the aic7xxx module is missing (which I 
>>>>>don't think is the case) or hosed, or it's having trouble with the label 
>>>>>for the root partition (Fedora system). Will investigate further when I 
>>>>>get home tonight, unless something jumps out at anyone.
>>>>>
>>>>>kr
>>>>
>>>>For clarification: This appears to be a problem in 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 also.
>>>
>>>
>>>try root=/dev/sda3 (or whereever your root fs is) instead of
>>>root=LABEL=/, in /etc/grub.conf.
>>>
>>>	Ingo
>>>
>>
>>Thanks. Tried that just to be sure. However, I don't seem to be the
>>only one having this problem with aic7xxx.
> 
> 

Ingo,

First let me say that, in case you haven't been following the other 
thread about this "2.6.9-rc3-mm3 fails to detect aic7xxx", I resolved 
this by backing out the bk-scsi.patch and bk-scsi-target.patch. Without 
those everything works fine.

> could you send me the following info:
> 
>   - full log of a failed boot

I would like to be able to be able to send you this, but it doesn't get 
to the point of logging. It dies trying to find the / device. On the 
screen it displays the parameters for the chosen option in grub.conf, 
says its uncompressing, then displays the Nash version info, then 
displays a panic message about not finding the root device. Something on 
the order of:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown-block(0,0)

Do you think that I would actually get to see more info out of this if I 
connect a serial console?

>   - full log of a successful boot

Attached.

>   - the output of 'mount'

[root@porky root]# mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /proj1 type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

> 
> 	Ingo
> 

thanks,

kr