On Wednesday 12 January 2005 16:48, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:14:58PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > I tried also boot net then load : ....console=tty0 noinitrd, hoping it > > was able to find root as /dev/sda3 which exists now but always the same: > > > > cannot open root device "<NULL>...." > > > > if load: ... root=/dev/sda3 we have > > > > cannot open root device "sda3..." > > > > just for fun load= ... root=/dev/scsi/.../part3 all the same > > This should not be, can you post the full kernel log please ?
Here is the output on ttyS0: 0 > boot net LOAD: Waiting 60 seconds for Spanning Tree BOOTP R = 1 BOOTP S = 1 FILE: /tftpboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Load Addr=0x1000000 Max Size=0x7000000 FINAL Packet Count = 10770 Final File Size = 5513751 bytes. loaded at: 01000400 01549FF4 relocated to: 00800000 00D49BF4 zimage at: 0080A94C 0093E4EC initrd at: 0093F000 00D3F776 avail ram: 00400000 00800000 Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 noinitrd root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 Uncompressing Linux...done. Now booting the kernel Total memory = 128MB; using 256kB for hash table (at c0300000) Linux version 2.6.8-powerpc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (version gcc 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-5)) #1 Sat Jan 8 22:01:09 CET 2005 PReP architecture IBM planar ID: 000000d5 MPIC at 0xfafc0000 (0x3afc0000), length 0x00040000 mapped to 0xeffc0000 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 noinitrd root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 OpenPIC Version 1.0 (4 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at effc0000 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes) time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.618043 MHz Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Memory: 122304k available (1732k kernel code, 1060k data, 164k init, 0k highmem) Calibrating delay loop... 231.93 BogoMIPS Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 4097k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Setting PCI interrupts for a "IBM 43P-140 (Tiger1)" PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0b.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0c.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:10.0 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:16.0 (0084 -> 0086) matroxfb: Matrox Mystique 220 (PCI) detected matroxfb: BIOS on your Matrox device does not contain powerup info matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x3276) matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xFC000000, mapped to 0xc9005000, size 2097152 fb0: MATROX frame buffer device fb0: initializing hardware matroxfb: Pixel PLL not locked after 5 secs Thermal assist unit not available audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1105541936.273:0): initialized devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Initializing Cryptographic API Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 Generic RTC Driver v1.07 Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) VFS: Cannot open root device "scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. > > Seems like the scsi driver didn't get loaded or something, Any relationship with the PCI errors ? > can you check if > it is present on the initrd ? mount -t cramfs /boot/initrd.img /mnt or > something such should do. Just now I can't boot, I have to netboot and go reinstall until /target will be available, no ? And.. /boot/initrd.img is not a device, I don't see how to mount it. Friendly. Felipe
