Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:45:41 -0500 From: Dennis Veatch <dveatch@woh.rr.com> To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aic7xxx and ext3, JFS and reiserfs on / Message-ID: <200401241745.41250.dveatch@woh.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200401180219.49355.dveatch@woh.rr.com> References: <200401180219.49355.dveatch@woh.rr.com>
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On Sunday 18 January 2004 02:19 am, Dennis Veatch wrote: > I am having a problem booting with this kernel. The machine is an IBM PC > Server 330 (dual), ServeRAID (Raid 5 with 1 hot swap) and the aic-7880 > (built-in). The OS is Mandrake Cooker. > > Once the aic7xxx.ko is loaded all appears fine. When it starts initrd there > are mount error 6's as it tries with notail, etc, eventually it gives up > and pivot_root fails with a error 2. Which is followed with a panic, not > finding init and says try passing init=. The system boots fine with 2.4.24 > so I am sure there is no problem with grub. > > I have tried passing aic7xxx verbose, reverse_scan and panic_on_abort. Well > nothing happened so I can only assume there is not a problem with > aic7xxx.ko. At least I am sort of, kind of sure. > > I have tried rebuilding initrd with mkinitrd -v and the output seems > normal. At least there are no compaints. > > I have replaced the hard drive, ran a media check and even low-level > formatted the critter. No change. > > I have been wrestling this for several days now and well, that's why I'm > here. Looking for the bone that eliminates the driver for sure. Pardon the Emily Post violation. Turns out the aic7xxx is just fine. There seems to be some kind of udev/devfs/something problem with the 2.6.x kernels and how Mandrake packaged them or boot scripts or initrd, not really sure where but it's there some where. I took several of their default sources and recompiled them without devfs. By that I mean it was not compiled as a built-in or a module. I then added root(hd0,5) to grub's menu.lst and got a bootable 2.6.x system. -- Registered Linux user 193414 http://counter.li.org "Trying"? My contribution was much closer to a "feeble wave in the general direction of something that might lead you one step closer to a solution if you squint really hard and do all of the work."
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