Kernel panic while booting 2.1.9 or 2.1.10 (IDE Driver pbm?)

Vincent Renardias (vincent@waw.com)
Sun, 17 Nov 1996 18:21:31 +0100 (GMT+0100)


Hello,

kernels 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 don't boot on my PC. They give the following
messages upon booting:

[...]
ide: i82371 PIIX(Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007
hda: ST51080A, TAT DiskDrive
hdb: HITACHI CDR-7730, ATAPI CDROM Drive
ide0 at 0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[...]
hda: driver not present
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

On the same computer, 2.0.0 and 2.0.24 are fine.
Here are the relevant boot messages for 2.0.24:

[...]
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007
hda: ST51080A, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=525/64/63
hdb: HITACHI CDR-7730, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[...]
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
JAVA Binary support v1.01 for Linux 1.3.98 (C)1996 Brian A. Lantz
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

It worked fine with 2.1.7 also, but didn't try 2.1.8.

My config follows (ask if you need other infos.):

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y
CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_IPV6=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL3=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_PROFILE=y

Regards,

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