Re: [cooker-amd64] 10.0/AMD64 Release Notes

[J.P. Pasnak]

Michael Riss said:
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 00:36, J.P. Pasnak wrote:
>> On March 17, 2004 17:09 pm, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
>> > mercredi 17 mars 2004, à 11:26  pm, J.P. Pasnak a écrit :
>> > >> XFS is available as a module and I made an XFS /boot
>> > >> installation yesterday to check that the new kernel works.
>> > >> Indeed, XFS was not working in original 2.6.3-6mdk (and probably
>> > >> earlier versions) due to a
>> > >> missing symbol.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for letting me know.  I'll assume that it should work once
>> > > the missing symbol issue is resolved?
>> >
>> > It's solved in my 2.6.3-6.3mdk or Nicolas' upcoming -7mdk. And I am
>> > sure I also tested the opposite, i.e. reiserfs /boot and xfs /
>> > without problem. What did you do exactly to get that mount error?
>>
>> I booted the kernel :)
>>
>> All partitions are XFS (on a SATA HDD).   via and xfs .ko's load, and
>> then it attempts to mount, errors out with 'mount error 6', tries it
>> without some flags, errors out the same, tries it with no flags,
>> errors out again, and then gives a 'kernel panic try passing
>> init=.....' message.
>
> Is it possible that the changed device numbering is the reason for
> your problems?
> Excerpt from http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1973:
>
>  kernel 2.4 (don't recognize sata devices)
>  hda -> ide 0,0
>  hdb -> ide 0,1
>  hdc -> ide 1,0
>  hdd -> ide 1,1
>  in lilo.conf root=/dev/hda5 SYSTEM OK !!!
>
>  kernel 2.6 (recognize new hardware but keep it before the existing
> devices as
> ide ones)
>  hda -> sata 0,0 !!!
>  hdb -> sata 0,1 !!!
>  hdc -> sata 1,0 !!!
>  hdd -> sata 1,1 !!!
>  hde -> ide 0,0 (ex hda)
>  hdf -> ide 0,1
>  hdg -> ide 1,0
>  hdh -> ide 1,1
>  in lilo.conf root=/dev/hda5 then i optain the same your error 6.....
>
> I had the effect, that my P-ATA rootdisk changed its name from
> /dev/hda to /dev/hde in the change from 2.4 to 2.6.
> Maybe you have to go in the opposite direction with your S-ATA drive.
>

Tks.  Might be worth a try.   Can't hurt....

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