I'm running into trouble trying to boot using
kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing,
Linux version 2.4.18-686-smp (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.95.4
20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sun 2BIOS-provided physical RAM
map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00
(usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000
(reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
(reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffd000
(usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fffd000 - 000000000ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 65533
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61437 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=802 console=ttyS0,115200n8
console=tty0
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 651.492 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1300.88 BogoMIPS
Memory: 253840k/262132k available (900k kernel code, 7904k reserved,
250k data, 216k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.72 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 651.4986 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.2304 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1002304, slice: 501152
CPU0<T0:1002304,T1:501152,D:0,S:501152,C:1002304>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf06b0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 00:04.0
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994
Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 1988 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 1988k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
I have a single SCSI drive (2 partitions, first is swap, second is root)
connected via an Adaptec 29160. Here are the relevant bits of my
lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda2
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/initrd.img
And of course:
testserver:~# ls -l /initrd.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 23 10:01 /initrd.img ->
/boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp
testserver:~# ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2035712 May 23 10:01
/boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp
All assistance is greatly appreciated.
Ken Causey