On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:13:08 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc5/2.6.15-rc5-mm2/ > Booting a SMP built kernel with 'nosmp' just hangs at the VFS layer, with the message about 'not being able to find root device sda1'. sda is a SATA drive on an Intel ICH5 controller: libata version 1.20 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 16 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 16 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 390721968 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : ata_piix ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xC807 scsi1 : ata_piix Vendor: ATA Model: ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda I would have to double check, but I think it even missed the USB keyboard. Something really strange... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.14-jam4 (gcc 4.0.2 (4.0.2-1mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.1))