RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 pciehp regression

[Tom Duffy <tduffy@sun.com>]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:56 -0700, Sy, Dely L wrote:
> On Friday, April 15, 2005 12:48 PM, Tom Duffy wrote:
> > From: "Sy, Dely L" <dely.l.sy@intel.com>
> > > Thanks for reporting this.  I'll look into it.  Which was the last 
> > > kernel you tested on your hw and worked for you?
> 
> > That is a good question.  I think it was a 2.6.11 kernel.  It was 
> > definately before express was moved to a different directory, 
> > whenever that occured.
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I was not able to duplicate this problem on my system yet for I have
> trouble in getting my system booted up on 2.6.12-rc2-mm3.  I did some
> back-tracking and found that the boot problem occurred also with 
> 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 & 2.6.12-rc2-mm3, and on two systems using IDE as boot 
> drive. The config file I used worked fine on 2.6.11.7. I tried 
> different config file without success.
> 
> The errors I encountered were:
> Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
> Umount /sys failed: 16
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> mount: error 2 mounting none
> Switching to new root
> Switchroot: mount failed 22
> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> 
> I also encountered issue you & others discussed in the thread on
> "Re: Heads up on 2.6.12-rc1 and later" if I used SCSI drive.
> 
> Can you send me the config file you used successfully on your 
> system?

You will need to boot the system UP (not SMP).  There is a problem with
modules loading too fast that causes the initrd to fail.

-tduffy

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