Hello,
I am trying to get our system to boot using
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp
with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't
cut and paste anything since I'm working on the console)
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init 424 cannot open dev/console
kernel panic: Attempted to kill init
So I tried compiling my own kernel 2.6.9 (I have no problems with
kernel compilation, but since this happens with the Debian kernel
images, something else must be wonky with 2.6.x) Now I get:
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(104,1)
The hardware is:
2 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
5GB RAM
ServerWorks 6i RAID controller (following is the lspci -v section)
0000:04:03.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart
Array 64xx (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 4091
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 51
Memory at fdff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
Memory at fdf80000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
We have 1 36GB disk for the time being to just get the base system
working.. which does work correctly with the stock testing kernel.
2.4.27 I believe. Anyhow, I'm not sure what would be the problem and
what other information would be useful for you to have. If you think
of anything, ask away.
Oh, this is what is in /var/log/messages from boot:
cciss: Device 0x46 has been found at bus 4 dev 3 func 0
blocks= 71122560 block_size= 512
heads= 255, sectors= 32, cylinders= 8716 RAID 0
blk: queue c036ad60, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
Partition check:
cciss/c0d0: p1 p2 < p5 >
I do remember the cciss/c0d0: p1 p2 < p5 > line being different..
something along the lines of /dev/cciss/host0/target0: p1 p2 < p5 >
That's all for now and thank you, in advance.
Ian