On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:05:10PM -0600, Jerry Williams wrote: > I was running FC4 and I was running fine with > kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm. > > Then kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.i686.rpm came out and I upgraded, but my > machine wouldn't boot with it. > > Since FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project I decided to try > FC5 since the kernel was still kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.i686.rpm. > So I did an upgrade from FC4 to FC5. > I have found out since that the 2.6.15 kernel is more like 2.6.16. > My machine wouldn't boot with the new FC5 kernel. I tried the new 2.6.17 > kernel and it doesn't work either. > > I was able to load the FC4 kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm and my machine > now boots. > > It appears to not be able to find my SATA disks when sata_via.ko loads. > > This is what I see when I boot: > > > Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)' > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /vmlinux-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/V0/L1 acpi=off rhgb quiet > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x16eb71] > initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img > [Linux-initrd @ 0x37e3c000, 0x1b312a bytes] > > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. > Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting > ata1: failed to set xfermode, disabled > ata2: failed to set xfermode, disabled > device-mapper: dm-mirror: Device lookup failure > device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: No such device or address > > Unable to open /dev/mapper/via_jheaibjjh - unrecognised disk label. > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > No volume groups found > Unable to find volume group "V0" > Unable to access resume device (/dev/V0/L0) > mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' > setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory > setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory > setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory > switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > > > With kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 the message is pretty much the same except > for: > > ata1: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) > ata2: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) Ok, this will be fairly painful, but it should allow to get some extra debug info.. - first, grab the experimental kernel from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5 - edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst and the line that begins kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.3000 blahblah.. add at the end.. boot_delay=500 Now, when you boot you'll get more info than you did previously (as this test kernel ignores the 'quiet' parameter), and it'll also output text v.e.r.y. s.l.o.w.l.y.... which should give you time to scribble down the debug data, or at least grab some photos of it when you get a screenful. Drop the resulting info into bugzilla, and we might stand a fighting chance of getting to the bottom of it. Right now, I don't know whether this is a kernel, mkinitrd or device-mapper bug. Alternatively, if you have a second machine, and a serial cable, booting the buggy machine with console=ttyS0,38400 and setting up a minicom session on the other end will make it even easier to capture to a logfile. Dave
