RE: Kernel panic during boot (Can't get irq for primary IDE!)
dr john halewood (john@unidec.co.uk)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:40:29 -0000
> Thomas Iversen (zensonic@diku.dk) wrote:
> <snip>
> With recent kernels (2.1.125) I sometimes get the following sequence
> at
> boot.
> <the error>
> Partition check:
> Request-module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mountet
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
> </the error>
>
> I had this with an ibm harddrive on my alpha w/2.1.125. It's actually
> a configuration error - you have to enable ide/ata-2 disk support when
> you run make config. Just a result of people moving bits of code
> around
> somewhere ;-)
>
> cheers,
> john
>
> p.s. anyone like to take a shot at why my system (600MHz alpha lx164,
> 512Mb ram) has suddenly started using 128Mb of buffers in 2.1.126 at
> startup when it was about 10Mb with 2.1.125?
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