Bug#500062: linux-image-2.6.26-1-486: Disables IDE ports, can't find root fs afterwards
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:54:52PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-486
> Version: 2.6.26-5
> Severity: normal
>
> I just upgraded my ThinkPad 760 ED from Etch to Lenny. Everything in
> the userland works fine under the Etch kernel, but the Lenny kernel
> can't find it's root filesystem. It says something like "Waiting for
> root file system" and then falls into an initramfs shell after a
> minute or two.
>
> Etch's 2.6.18 kernel boots fine. It also immediately finds and mounts
> the root fs.
>
> Since I could neither find any /dev/hd* nor any /dev/sd* using the
> initramfs shell of the 2.6.26 kernel, I suspect the kernel messages
> marked with a "<--" below to be the cause for not finding the root fs:
>
> ---snip---
> [...]
> [ 21.065487] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
> [ 21.065749] ide: Assuming 33 MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> [ 22.320593] PIIXa: IDE controller (0x8086:0x122e rev 0x02) at PCI slot 0000:00:01.0
> [ 22.321073] PIIXa: bad irq (0): will probe later <--
> [ 22.321259] PIIXa: IDE port disabled <--
> [ 22.321401] PIIXa: IDE port disabled <--
> done.
> Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
> Begin: Waiting for root file system ... [ 72.897108] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 507481960 ns)
> done.
> Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
> - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
> - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
> - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
> - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
> ALERT! /dev/hda3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
> [...]
> ---snap---
Hi,
The Debian kernel configuration has been switched to the libata-based
driver variant in 2.6.32-10. Please check whether the problem persists.
Thanks,
Moritz
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