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From: "Herbert Pötzl" <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	gaxt@rogers.com, henrik@fangorn.dk, romieu@fr.zoreil.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org,
	babydr@baby-dragons.com, len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:53:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030811185326.GB25186@www.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030811154009.GE6763@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>


Hi Norbert!

your config seems reasonable to me ...

> I tells me all the usual stuff concerning that it finds 
> the controllers (VIA and HPT) and disks/cdroms, but than 
> hangs with
>        cannot mount rootfs "NULL" or hdb1

AFAIK, there is no such message in 2.6.0-test3 ...

if, on the other hand, the message looks like ...

-----------
VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
-----------

then this means that "hdb1" was the device given at
the kenel command line (as root=/dev/hdb1) and the
'unknown-block(0,0)' is the major/minor the kernel 
recognized ...

you should pay special attention to the disc/partition
discovery done by the IDE subsystem ...

-----------
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 65537 sectors (33 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=65/16/63
hda: hda1 
hdb: 131074 sectors (67 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=130/16/63
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
...
-----------

maybe you could attach a serial console (line)
and capture the boot process, and report it ...

HTH,
Herbert


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-11 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-09 10:46 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs gaxt
2003-08-09 10:40 ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-09 11:56   ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-09  9:07     ` Norbert Preining
     [not found]       ` <20030809130641.A8174@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
     [not found]         ` <01a201c35e65$0536ef60$ee52a450@theoden>
2003-08-09 11:58   ` Henrik Storner
2003-08-09 13:48   ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-09 14:32 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-08-09 14:48   ` gaxt
2003-08-09 14:38     ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-08-09 15:19       ` DVD Problems 2.6.0-test3 & 2.6.0-test2-mm5 gaxt
2003-08-09 15:01     ` 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs Henrik Ræder Clausen
2003-08-10 21:17   ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-10 22:43     ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-11  5:34       ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-11 14:59         ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-11 15:40           ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-11 18:53             ` Herbert Pötzl [this message]
2003-08-11 21:50               ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-11 22:21                 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-12  1:52                   ` Mark W. Alexander
2003-08-12  6:28                     ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-12  5:39                   ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-12 12:26                     ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-12 12:31                       ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-12 12:44                       ` jeff millar
2003-08-12 23:52                         ` Thomas Molina
2003-08-13 16:59                           ` Paul Dickson
2003-08-14  4:09                             ` jeff millar
2003-08-13  6:15   ` SOLUTION " Norbert Preining
2003-08-13  6:27     ` "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-08-13  6:30       ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-13 12:07     ` jeff millar
2003-08-13 12:30       ` Herbert Pötzl
     [not found]         ` <00bb01c36198$51cba650$6401a8c0@wa1hco>
2003-08-13 13:24           ` Herbert Pötzl
     [not found]             ` <009b01c362d5$13838b90$6401a8c0@wa1hco>
     [not found]               ` <20030815030013.GA9587@www.13thfloor.at>
     [not found]                 ` <00a401c3632a$80dd2a20$6401a8c0@wa1hco>
     [not found]                   ` <20030815132619.GB3695@www.13thfloor.at>
2003-08-16  0:34                     ` 2.6.0-test3 _still_ " jeff millar
2003-08-16 15:00                       ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-13 13:24     ` SOLUTION Re: 2.6.0-test3 " Christian Mautner
2003-08-12  7:37 Daniel Blueman
2003-08-12 13:22 "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-08-12 14:06 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-12 14:21   ` Christophe Saout
2003-08-12 13:23 "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-08-12 20:43 ` Norbert Preining
2003-08-13  5:17   ` "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-08-12 14:16 "Andrey Borzenkov" 

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