kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686: impossible to mount the root partition on a SATA disk
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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initrd-tools (Debian) |
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initrd-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Critical
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Jeff Bailey |
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #1 |
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #2 |
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:29:52 +0900
From: Horms <email address hidden>
To: Olivier Lecarme <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#290474: kernel-
disk
reassign 290474 initrd-tools
thanks
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:37:46AM +0100, Olivier Lecarme wrote:
> Package: kernel-
> Version: 2.6.10-3
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=
>
> Versions of packages kernel-
> ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
> ii initrd-tools 0.1.76 tools to create initrd image for p
> ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
>
> -- no debconf information
> I have a Dell Optiplex computer with a SATA hard drive. Kernel 2.4 works
> OK with the disk in non-SATA mode. Kernel 2.6 panics on booting with
> the message /dev/console not found, preceded by a message from pivot_root
> which does not found the root partition.
> I tried both SATA modes in the BIOS: combination, or normal.
> I tried root=/dev/hda5 or root=/dev/sda5 in the Grub menu.lst file.
> I tried to omit initrd in this file.
This almost certainly won't work, as the kernel-image doesn't
have enough drivers to boot more or less any system. These are
provided by the initrd image.
I would suspect that the prblem is that mkinitrd is not adding
the drivers that are needed for your system to the initrd image.
With this in mind I am reassigning the bug to initrd-tools.
Do you have any idea what modules are required for your system.
Do you have a working 2.6 debian kernel image. If so could
you provide the output of lsmod. Ditto for 2.4, though that is probably
less useful.
--
Horms
Øivind Hoel (eruin) wrote : | #3 |
I have the same(?) issue. Root (ext3) located on /dev/sda5, which is a non-raid
sata disk.
Problem first occurred in 2.6.10-1, still here on 2.6.10-2. I'm running the k7
flavour.
Nothing happens when selecting the 2.6.10 kernels from grub. The last thing that
draws
on my screen is "Starting Ubuntu" - after that nothing happens.
2.6.9-1-k7 runs fine, and here's relevant(?) output while running it:
Output of lspci:
eruin@ubuntu:~ $ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host
Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID
Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800
South]0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX
5600] (rev a1)
And lsmod:
eruin@ubuntu:~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 11528 1
proc_intf 3972 0
freq_table 4036 0
cpufreq_userspace 5208 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6108 0
cpufreq_powersave 1664 0
button 6544 0
battery 9284 0
ac 4740 0
ipv6 257408 15
af_packet 22280 2
tsdev 7552 0
usbhid 32000 0
via_rhine 21252 0
mii 4928 1 via_rhine
snd_via82xx 27236 2
snd_ac97_codec 70544 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss 52264 1
snd_mixer_oss 19648 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 95368 2 snd_via82xx,
snd_timer 25028 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9800 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport 4480 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 7744 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 24804 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7944 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 55140 9
snd_via82xx,
soundcore 10080 3 snd
ehci_hcd 31108 0
uhci_hcd 32016 0
usbcore 116260 5 usbhid,
via82cxxx 13724 1
ne2k_pci 9248 0
8390 10496 1 ne2k_pci
crc32 4224 ...
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote : | #4 |
It would be more interesting to see where it hangs. Can you boot without the
quite options?
and attach the relevant bits here?
Øivind Hoel (eruin) wrote : | #5 |
- without quiet when booting the 2.6.10-kernel Edit (72.3 KiB, image/jpeg)
Created an attachment (id=1065)
without quiet when booting the 2.6.10-kernel
Here's what I get (grabbed an image with my cam instead of writing it down;)
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #6 |
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:22:31 +0100
From: "Olivier Lecarme" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: new attempts to solve this problem
Somebody told me that there could be an incompatibility between Grub and
Xfs, thus I switched to Lilo. The result is the same, but with a
different error message: /sbin/init is not found.
Maybe this will help...
--
Olivier Lecarme
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote : | #7 |
*** Bug 12017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #8 |
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:49:30 +0100
From: maximilian attems <email address hidden>
To: Olivier Lecarme <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#290474: new attempts to solve this problem
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Olivier Lecarme wrote:
> Somebody told me that there could be an incompatibility between Grub and
> Xfs, thus I switched to Lilo. The result is the same, but with a
> different error message: /sbin/init is not found.
>
> Maybe this will help...
> --
>
>
> Olivier Lecarme
no please provide full error message.
--
maks
Øivind Hoel (eruin) wrote : | #9 |
linux-image-
pool/main/
resolves this bug for me. I can now boot from my SATA drive just fine.
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #10 |
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:11:39 +1100
From: Jason Thomas <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: FYI
you will need to add your required modules before you install the
kernel or you can run mkinitrd by hand after having added your modules.
jason@bart:~$ cat /etc/mkinitrd/
# /etc/mkinitrd/
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules and their
# arguments
# (if any) that are needed to mount the root file system, one per line.
# Comments begin with a `#', and everything on the line after them are
# ignored.
#
# You must run mkinitrd(8) to effect this change.
#
# Examples:
#
# ext2
# wd io=0x300
scsi_mod
sd_mod
libata
sata_sil
jason@bart:~$
--
Jason
"I hope you learn speaking English proper I hope speak I me you."
-- Branden Robinson, 2001
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #11 |
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:38:57 +0200
From: "AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system, while 2.6.7 starts without problems
Hi,
I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system while 2.6.7 was
installed on same system and starts without problems few months ago.
I got the same error like others - cannot open dev/console, preceded
by a message from pivot_root which does not found the root partition.
I use grub and xfs file system on SATA drive (hde) on system with
Athlon (k7) CPU.
Tried several initrd versions (0.1.77, 0.1.76, 0.1.73, 0.1.67), but
without success :( AFAIK when I installed 2.6.7 kernel, then
initrd-tools version 0.1.67 were installed on my system and initrd was
generated corectly, this kernel starts without problems.
It seems bugs 290474 and 271038 are related - in both cases kernel
doesn't start with message "cannot open dev/console: No such file"
I can send initrd, generated when I install kernel-image 2.6.8 and
2.6.10, which doesn't start.
--=20
Labanaktis/Good luck,
Mantas Kriau=C4=
Public organization "Open Source for Lithuania" - www.akl.lt
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #12 |
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:13:24 +0300
From: Horms <email address hidden>
To: "AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas" <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#290474: I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system,
while 2.6.7 starts without problems
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:38:57PM +0200, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system while 2.6.7 was
> installed on same system and starts without problems few months ago.
>
> I got the same error like others - cannot open dev/console, preceded
> by a message from pivot_root which does not found the root partition.
>
> I use grub and xfs file system on SATA drive (hde) on system with
> Athlon (k7) CPU.
>
> Tried several initrd versions (0.1.77, 0.1.76, 0.1.73, 0.1.67), but
> without success :( AFAIK when I installed 2.6.7 kernel, then
> initrd-tools version 0.1.67 were installed on my system and initrd was
> generated corectly, this kernel starts without problems.
>
> It seems bugs 290474 and 271038 are related - in both cases kernel
> doesn't start with message "cannot open dev/console: No such file"
>
> I can send initrd, generated when I install kernel-image 2.6.8 and
> 2.6.10, which doesn't start.
If you uncomress the image you should be able to mount it using a
loopback device. And then inspect what is inside. Alternatelvely,
just regenerate the image using mkinitrd. If you add the -k argument
then it will leave what went into the image in a directory in /tmp.
In any case, the most likely cause of this is that the drivers
required to mount your root partition were not persent. This could
be a FS driver, but more likely an IDE or SCSI driver of some sort.
Can you give a little more information on what your root partition
lives on. Also, what modules are loaded up on the working 2.6.7 system?
By comparing this to what ends up on the CD, you can probably shed
some light on what has gone astray.
--
Horms
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #13 |
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:28:24 +0100
From: maximilian attems <email address hidden>
To: "AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas" <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#290474: I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system,
while 2.6.7 starts without problems
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
> I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels on my system while 2.6.7 was
> installed on same system and starts without problems few months ago.
>
> I got the same error like others - cannot open dev/console, preceded
> by a message from pivot_root which does not found the root partition.
>
> I use grub and xfs file system on SATA drive (hde) on system with
> Athlon (k7) CPU.
>
> Tried several initrd versions (0.1.77, 0.1.76, 0.1.73, 0.1.67), but
> without success :( AFAIK when I installed 2.6.7 kernel, then
> initrd-tools version 0.1.67 were installed on my system and initrd was
> generated corectly, this kernel starts without problems.
>
> It seems bugs 290474 and 271038 are related - in both cases kernel
> doesn't start with message "cannot open dev/console: No such file"
>
> I can send initrd, generated when I install kernel-image 2.6.8 and
> 2.6.10, which doesn't start.
after 2.6.7 the sata device name against change back to scsi style,
aka sdxN
it looks like you are specifying the wrong devie name.
hope that helps
thanks for your feedback
--
maks
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #14 |
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:22:30 +0100
From: "Harald Dunkel" <email address hidden>
To: maximilian attems <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
CC: "AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas" <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#271038: Bug#290474: I can't boot 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernels
on my system, while 2.6.7 starts without problems
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Hi Maximilian,
Since some kernel 2.6.x SATA devices are part of the
SCSI layer. This can be configured back to the
IDE layer, AFAIK. See the kernel configuration and
build a new kernel.
But the SCSI layer works pretty well. If you need
to switch back to kernel 2.4.x sometimes, then I would
suggest to label the partitions of your harddisks
(see man tune2fs, option -L, or man reiserfstune, -l).
You could use something like
LABEL=root / ext2 defaults 0 1
LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0
LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 1
in your /etc/fstab, instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1.
Regards
Harri
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:15:47 +0200
From: Vassilii Khachaturov <email address hidden>
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Subject: are you sure swap can be labeled?
> You could use something like
>
> LABEL=root / ext2 defaults 0 1
> LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0
> LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 1
>
> in your /etc/fstab, instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1.
Is your fstab example a real life one, or fictional? in the 1st case,
how did you manage to have the swap labeled??
I don't know how can one label a swap partition, if at all.
mkswap/
I know I can remove the swap partition and create another
one with one big file on it to hold the swap, but I suspect from the
architectural reasons this will be worse than using a dedicated partition.
I have suffered my share of problems with trying to keep
2.4 and 2.6 going together smoothly on the same machine
(see http://
and came up with nothing better than going single and
moving the appropriate fstab (sda flavoured for 2.6 and hda for 2.4)
in place. BTW, I have never figured how to force the cdrw
not to work in the ide-scsi emulation mode in 2.6; even with the
ide-cd driver preloaded by /etc/modules and an option
options ide-scsi ignore=hdd
added to the modules.conf (via update-modutils), the scsi
emulation still grabs hdd (somehow pulled in by the sata_sil?)
Regards,
vassilii
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #16 |
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:37:38 +0100
From: maximilian attems <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: strange mixture of bugs(2)
severity 290474 important
stop
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #17 |
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:55:20 +0200
From: Harald Dunkel <email address hidden>
To: Vassilii Khachaturov <email address hidden>
CC: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: are you sure swap can be labeled?
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Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
>>You could use something like
>>
>>LABEL=root / ext2 defaults 0 1
>>LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0
>>LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 1
>>
>>in your /etc/fstab, instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1.
>
>
> Is your fstab example a real life one, or fictional? in the 1st case,
> how did you manage to have the swap labeled??
>
mkswap -L myswap /dev/sda2
> I have suffered my share of problems with trying to keep
> 2.4 and 2.6 going together smoothly on the same machine
> (see http://
> and came up with nothing better than going single and
> moving the appropriate fstab (sda flavoured for 2.6 and hda for 2.4)
> in place. BTW, I have never figured how to force the cdrw
> not to work in the ide-scsi emulation mode in 2.6; even with the
> ide-cd driver preloaded by /etc/modules and an option
>
> options ide-scsi ignore=hdd
>
> added to the modules.conf (via update-modutils), the scsi
> emulation still grabs hdd (somehow pulled in by the sata_sil?)
>
This is obsolete. Try something like
cdrecord /dev/cdrom my.iso
for writing CDs, regardless whether it is SCSI or IDE.
Sorry for the late response. Somehow your EMail got marked
as read in my Inbox.
Regards
Harri
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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #18 |
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:47:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Vassilii Khachaturov <email address hidden>
To: Harald Dunkel <email address hidden>
cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: are you sure swap can be labeled?
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
> >>You could use something like
> >>
> >>LABEL=root / ext2 defaults 0 1
> >>LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0
> >>LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 1
> >>
> >>in your /etc/fstab, instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1.
> >
> >
> > Is your fstab example a real life one, or fictional? in the 1st case,
> > how did you manage to have the swap labeled??
> >
>
> mkswap -L myswap /dev/sda2
-L doesn't work here:
travel:
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name [blocks]
travel:
mkswap from util-linux-2.12
travel:
util-linux: /sbin/mkswap
travel:
Package: util-linux
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 976
Maintainer: LaMont Jones <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.12-10
[snip]
What version are you using?
> > options ide-scsi ignore=hdd
> >
> > added to the modules.conf (via update-modutils), the scsi
> > emulation still grabs hdd (somehow pulled in by the sata_sil?)
> >
> This is obsolete.
What is obsolete? I know that the scsi emulation for cdrw is obsolete,
but I was asking how to make sure that it doesn't happen in 2.6,
even when the SATA hard drive forces the SCSI storage drivers into existence.
> Try something like
>
> cdrecord /dev/cdrom my.iso
>
> for writing CDs, regardless whether it is SCSI or IDE.
Yeah, and if /dev/cdrom (/dev/cdrw in my case; the cdrom is another -
R/O - device) is mapped to a scsi emulation device, I get an error.
If I force a link cdrw -> hdd, it doesn't work at all because of
the conflict with the scsi emulation layer (AFAIU you may not use
an IDE device directly once it's grabbed by the scsi emulation).
(I'm away from the PC in question at this time, otherwise I would
have cited the precise error msgs. If you need additional input,
please tell me.)
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:15:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: are you sure swap can be labeled?
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Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>>
>>mkswap -L myswap /dev/sda2
>
> -L doesn't work here:
>
> [snip]
>
> What version are you using?
>
% mkswap --version
mkswap from util-linux-2.12p
% mkswap --help
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] [-L label] /dev/name [blocks]
>
> What is obsolete? I know that the scsi emulation for cdrw is obsolete,
> but I was asking how to make sure that it doesn't happen in 2.6,
> even when the SATA hard drive forces the SCSI storage drivers into existence.
>
I cannot verify the module load sequence from here. If you
do 'cat /proc/modules' then you get a list of modules as they
were loaded (with the most recent module on the top). On
my system lsmod returns the same module sequence. Maybe ide-scsi
is loaded much more early than you expected?
Is it an option to build a kernel without any ide-scsi
support?
Regards
Harri
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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #20 |
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From: Vassilii Khachaturov <email address hidden>
To: Harald Dunkel <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: are you sure swap can be labeled?
> > I know that the scsi emulation for cdrw is obsolete,
> > but I was asking how to make sure that it doesn't happen in 2.6,
> > even when the SATA hard drive forces the SCSI storage drivers into
> > existence.
>
> I cannot verify the module load sequence from here. If you
> do 'cat /proc/modules' then you get a list of modules as they
> were loaded (with the most recent module on the top). On
> my system lsmod returns the same module sequence. Maybe ide-scsi
> is loaded much more early than you expected?
>
> Is it an option to build a kernel without any ide-scsi
> support?
Indeed, when I built the kernel without the ide-scsi support, the SATA hard
drive did work nevertheless, yet the CD-ROM and the CD-RW stayed under
the pure IDE drivers control.
Unfortunately, though, in this case, despite the docs to the countrary,
I had experienced the same long timeouts during the media check
and errors on the write when trying to record anything on the CDRW,
so I reverted back to the ide-scsi emulation nevertheless.
In any case, I was unable to achieve one of them (the CD-ROM) under
the ATAPI IDE CD driver control, and the other (the CD-RW) under the SCSI
emulation control --- once the ide-scsi was there, the option to ignore the
emulation (via the "options ide-scsi hdc=ignore" line in the modprobe.d tree)
was itself ignored.
Since it all works under 2.6 with the scsi emulation anyway, I don't think
it is worth the bother, i.e., at least for me, this is not a big deal. Of
course, if somebody wants do debug it, I'll be happy to test things here.
And here's the lsmod output:
Module Size Used by
nvidia 3923228 12
apm 21100 1
parport_pc 36900 0
lp 11176 0
parport 41800 2 parport_pc,lp
binfmt_misc 11688 1
ipv6 264644 22
af_packet 22568 2
sr_mod 17316 0
floppy 61200 0
pcspkr 3592 0
snd_intel8x0 34076 1
snd_ac97_codec 78744 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 53768 0
snd_mixer_oss 20032 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 95496 3 snd_intel8x0,
snd_timer 25924 1 snd_pcm
snd 59076 8
snd_intel8x0,
soundcore 10336 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_intel8x0,
ehci_hcd 32004 0
usblp 13088 0
tsdev 7392 0
mousedev 10476 1
ov511 99392 0
ovcamchip 26248 0
joydev 9984 0
evdev 9600 0
usbhid 32224 0
videodev 10016 1 ov511
i2c_core 24176 2 ov511,ovcamchip
v4l2_common 6144 1 ov511
uhci_hcd 33136 0
usbcore ...
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #21 |
Message-id: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:10:29 +0300
From: Vassilii Khachaturov <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: sarge r0a i386 netinst partial success, IBM ThinkCentre 8189LDG
Package: installation-
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-
Tue Jul 13, 2005 got it from an admin
in the BGU CS computing services lab, who downloaded
it from an official Debian mirror.
uname -a:=20
Linux ilmarinen 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/=
Linux
Date: Finished circa Wed Jul 13 early A.M., IDT 2005
Method:=20
* Manual installation, at the console. Had a working laptop
plugged in as well to talk to the #debian-boot on the irc.freenode.ne=
t
when problems started happening.
* Booted off the ATAPI CD-ROM. Network install from the official
Israeli HTTP mirror at=20
deb http://
* This happens at home, in a private LAN 10, which is routed (via NAT=
)=20
to the internet by an Alcatel Speedtouch 510 ADSL modem.
Machine: IBM ThinkCentre
As per the BIOS machine info screen:
* Machine Type/Model: 8189LDG
* Flash EEPROM Revision Level: 2AKT48AUS=20
(November 2004, there's a March 2005 version available at the time of=
writing)
* CPU Bus Speed: 800MHz
* Memory Speed: 400MHz
Processor:
processor=09: 0
vendor_id=09: GenuineIntel
cpu family=09: 15
model=09=09: 2
model name=09: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
stepping=09: 9
cpu MHz=09=09: 2593.784
cache size=09: 512 KB
fdiv_bug=09: no
hlt_bug=09=09: no
f00f_bug=09: no
coma_bug=09: no
fpu=09=09: yes
fpu_exception=09: yes
cpuid level=09: 2
wp=09=09: yes
flags=09=09: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca=
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips=09: 5144.57
Memory:
total used free shared buffers ca=
ched
Mem: 515900 59044 456856 0 26568 1=
0784
-/+ buffers/cache: 21692 494208
Swap: 1373548 0 1373548
Root Device: SATA WDC 80G drive, sda.=20
discover output from hardware-summary: WDC WD800JD-
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
* /proc/partitions:
major minor #blocks name
8 0 78150744 sda
8 1 128488 sda1
8 2 1373557 sda2
8 3 498015 sda3
8 4 76148100 sda4
254 0 5242880 dm-0
254 1 3145728 dm-1
254 2 2097152 dm-2
254 3 7864320 dm-3
* /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev2/root2 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/
/dev/mapper/sys-tmp /tmp reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/sys-usr /usr reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/sys-var /var reiserfs rw 0 0
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Hos=
t-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00...
Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote : | #22 |
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:44:34 +0200
From: Thomas Richter <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: initrd-tools: Similar problem on K8N Neo2, sata_nv missing
Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.81.1
Followup-For: Bug #290474
When upgrading from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel on a SATA machine,
booting becomes impossible because mkinitrd does not include
the SATA drivers that are now required to handle the SATA disk
on 2.6. On 2.4, the same disks have been handled by the generic
PATA (aka IDE) drivers.
The problem is fixable by editing the module list of the initrd
manually (mounting the cramfs, editing by hand). Specifically,
for the mentioned board (K8N Neo2), the following driver must be
supplied:
sata_nv
since this is an nforce chipset. Depending on the chipset,
more/other drivers should be included.
On upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6, it is suggested that the package upgrades
the following details:
a) Include the SATA drivers, even though SATA is currently not in use
for 2.4. (Fix in this package)
b) Update /etc/fstab since the SATA drives appear now at /dev/sd?
instead of /dev/hd? (where should this fix be done? kernel-image?)
c) Update /etc/grub/menu.list to reflect the location of root.
(fix in grub package)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_
Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii cpio 2.5-1.2 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii dash 0.5.2-5 The Debian Almquist Shell
ii util-linux 2.12p-4 Miscellaneous system utilities
-- no debconf information
Changed in initrd-tools: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Message-Id: <email address hidden> image-2. 6.10-1- 686: impossible to mount the root partition on a SATA
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:37:46 +0100
From: Olivier Lecarme <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: kernel-
disk
Package: kernel- image-2. 6.10-1- 686
Version: 2.6.10-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
-- System Information: ISO-8859- 1)
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=
Versions of packages kernel- image-2. 6.10-1- 686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.76 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
-- no debconf information
I have a Dell Optiplex computer with a SATA hard drive. Kernel 2.4 works
OK with the disk in non-SATA mode. Kernel 2.6 panics on booting with
the message /dev/console not found, preceded by a message from pivot_root
which does not found the root partition.
I tried both SATA modes in the BIOS: combination, or normal.
I tried root=/dev/hda5 or root=/dev/sda5 in the Grub menu.lst file.
I tried to omit initrd in this file.
I tried root=probe, point to /dev/hda5 in initrd, or root=/dev/sda5.
Note that /dev/[hs]da5 is in XFS mode.