On 8/15/05, Srinivasan, Usha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been successfully running 2.6.11 under Red Hat RHEL4 environment > with no problems at all. I needed to switch to 2.6.12 and chose > 2.6.12.3. However, I am having problems booting 2.6.12.3. My SCSI HBAs > & disks are not being found at boot time and I see these errors during > boot: The 2.6.11 tree is a kernel.org tree?
Are you using LVM or regular partitions? > Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting > Mkrootdev: label / not found > Umount /sys failed: 16 > Mount: error 19 mounting ext3 > Mount: error 2 mounting none > Switchroot: mount failed: 22 > Umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Do you see the scsi driver find the disks? I work around I use some times is to change my root line in the bootloader to root=/dev/(your disk). Lables can cause confusion. > After trying many many things I have figured out what works and what > doesn't. > > Works: > If I build scsi_mod, sd_mod, scsi_transport_spi and aic7xxxx drivers as > built into the kernel, 2.6.12.3 boots fine. > > Doesn't work: > If I build scsi_mod, sd_mod, scsi_transport_spi and aic7xxxx drivers as > Modules, 2.6.12.3 fails to boot. The modules are put into an initrd correct? You need their functinality to boot. Keith - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
