Re: Kernel panic 2.6.8-9, unable to boot at all

["ocl@arayan.com" <ocl@arayan.com>]

John C. Martin wrote on 2004-10-30 16:42:
> Is the driver for the root filesystem device modularized in your kernel?  

Yes, it is modularized. This being the 3ware card, it is part of the
kernel for a very long time.

I just found something somewhat odd while checking if they were
actually both modularized in the config-xxxxxxx files in /boot

Yes, they are both modularized. But, since my card is 3ware,
I am not sure if my culprit isn't in these two lines

config for kernel 2.6.7-5
  CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID=m

config for kernels 2.6.8-1..2.6.8-9
  CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID=m
  CONFIG_SCSI_3W_9XXX=m

Now... A couple of days ago I asked the 3ware people about
their raid manager stuff for debian, and here is a part
of their reply:

  We are planning to phase these in to the 8000/7000 series
  in the next release. Make sure the controller has the latest
  firmware and driver.

I wonder if having the 2 modules in is what screws up things.

> I had the same thing here last week on my systems (Shuttle SN95G5).  The driver 
> module supporting the device the root filesystem was on was not being loaded.  
> The problem was solved by explicitly adding the module 
> to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and rebuilding the initrd image (using a full kernel 
> rebuild, I could not get mkinitrd to work for me standalone).  I had to fall 
> back to previous kernel I was using (2.6.6) to boot, make these changes, and 
> rebuild the kernel.

I added '3w-xxxx' (the module I need) to /etc/mkinitrd/modules

With that, I tried to login, but ended up with the same kernel panic stuff.

Now... Do I need a kernel compilation? If so, how on earth can I do
that --I can't even login...

BTW, since I am using stock Debian kernels, is there anywhere I can
download those images from. I might as well try that --easier than
setting up a fresh install, I guess.

Cheers,
Ray