Bug#366620: initramfs-tools: 2.6.16-1-powerpc fails to mount rootfs, 2.6.15-1-powerpc works

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:33:18PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:42:28AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:48:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:55:39AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > > tags 366620 moreinfo
> > > > stop
> 
> > hda: Quantum Fireball_tm1700A, ATA Disk drive
> > hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
> > ide0 at 0xc2016000-0x2016007,0xc2016160 on ir1q 13
> 
> [...]
> 
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda5" or unknown-block(0,0)
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> >  (0) Rebooting in 180 seconds...
> > 
> > I miss the partition enumeration, it seems like the kernel does not see the
> > partitions on the harddisk.
> 
> I tried yaird today. No luck same error message.
> 
> Also tried the installer floppies with 2.6.16 from here:
> http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-05-13/powerpc/floppy/boot.img
> and it booted. The installer never detected the disk correctly though.
> So it might be some kernel problem with ide disks on powerpc.

Mmm, we need to investigate this. The boot floppy is another kind of kernel config
though.

Can you provide your /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/device-tree content ? as well as
lspci and lspci -n output ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther