2.1.7{8-9}

Ildar Khabibrakhmanov (odin@isas62.usask.ca)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:36:35 -0600 (CST)

Kernel chokes while booting at
.....
hda: driver not present
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02

System works with 2.1.77
For example, the following are exerts from boot
messages for 2.1.77

Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver revision 2.0
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: hda: ST5850A, ATA DISK drive
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: hda: ST5850A, 815MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1656/16/63
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at IO:330, IRQ 11, DMA priority 5
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Vendor: IMPRIMIS Model: 94601-15 Rev: 4614
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU-55S Rev: 1.0t
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: aha1542.c: Trying device reset for target 3
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: HACC aha1542.c: interrupt received, but no mail.
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: aha1542_detect: failed setting up mailboxes
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Sent BUS RESET to scsi host 0
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2031705 [992 MB] [1.0 GB]
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: eth0: WD80x3 at 0x280, 00 00 C0 61 50 55 WD8013, IRQ 3, shared memory at 0xd0000-0xd3fff.
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: Partition check:
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Jan 13 15:25:31 isas62 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)readonly

Mail me at ildar@isas62.usask.ca
Regards, Ildar