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Re: Unofficial 2.6.11 kernel-images available for sparc



Petr <petrvz@gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 10:33 -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The unofficial 2.6.11 kernel images (for sparc64 and sparc64-smp so far, 
> > sparc32 is going to be available in a couple of days) are now available 
> > for testing at [0].
> > 
> > [0] http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernels/2.6/
> 
> Just tried sparc64 on my Ultra 5. The initial boot is successful but
> then it hangs with:
> 
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1 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)
> 
> Kernel 2.4.27 works fine with same silo.conf root=/dev/hda1 parameter
> Some googling showed this thread
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/970?PHPSESSID=4a8124f9c01a609470d7f352429b97b2
> and a suggested fix "you must "INCLUDE IDE/ATA disk Support" compile in
> your kernel and not as module..." seemed to work there. 
> I don't know much about kernel stuff, I hope this makes sense to
> someone. Back to my previous kernel for now.
> 
> Peter

 Or use initrd=/initrd.img in your silo.conf for the 2.6 kernels.

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Jim

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