Bug#336993: linux-image-2.6.14-1-powerpc64: does not boot, failed to mount root fs
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-1-powerpc64
Version: 2.6.14-2
Severity: important
Hi,
I have been trying to boot this G5 (PowerMac7,2) with Sven's 2.6.14-rc5,
and the 2.6.14-{1,2} in the archives, but i always get the same error at
boot time, something that looks like:
[...]
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0.
Kernel Panic - not syncing - VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)
<Rebooting in 180 sec...>
i couldn't spot anything else strange in the lines above these last ones.
i use xfs on this partition. the initrd.img created by yaird seems to
contain all it takes:
piem@calabaza:/tmp/initrd-2.6.14 $ sudo zcat /boot/initrd.img | cpio -ivd
.
bin
bin/cat
bin/dash
bin/mkdir
bin/mknod
bin/mount
bin/sleep
bin/umount
dev
cpio: dev/console: Operation not permitted
dev/console
cpio: dev/null: Operation not permitted
dev/null
etc
lib
lib/modules
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/ide
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/ide/pci
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/generic.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/input
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/input/evdev.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/scsi
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/scsi/libata.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_svw.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/core
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/host
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/input
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/input/usbhid.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/usb/input/yealink.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/fs
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/fs/exportfs
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/fs/xfs
lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5-powerpc64/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
lib/tls
lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so
lib/tls/libm-2.3.5.so
lib/tls/libpthread-2.3.5.so
lib/tls/librt-2.3.5.so
lib/tls/libc.so.6
lib/tls/libm.so.6
lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
lib/tls/librt.so.1
lib/ld-2.3.5.so
lib/libblkid.so.1.0
lib/libuuid.so.1.2
lib/ld.so.1
lib/libblkid.so.1
lib/libuuid.so.1
mnt
proc
sbin
sbin/insmod
sys
usr
usr/lib
usr/lib/yaird
usr/lib/yaird/exec
usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init
var
init
8308 blocks
the yaboot entry looks like:
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
append="devfs=mount"
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
anything i can try?
cheers, piem
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-powerpc64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.14-1-powerpc64 depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.37 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre9-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.11-10 Yet Another mkInitRD
linux-image-2.6.14-1-powerpc64 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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