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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: "Rahsheen Porter Sr." <microrahsheen@comcast.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HPT366 not booting with 2.6.0tests
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:51:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312041751.35707.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031204160753.3bd3879a.microrahsheen@comcast.net>

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
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-12-04 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-04 21:07 HPT366 not booting with 2.6.0tests Rahsheen Porter Sr.
2003-12-04 22:51 ` Gene Heskett [this message]

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