Warning: kernel-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7 unbootable on Itanium systems (IA-64 architecture)

[Kjartan Maraas]

lør, 16.12.2006 kl. 11.52 -0600, skrev Tom Brinkman:
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 8:43 am, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> >  > Hi,
> >  >
> >  > Just to inform Itanium users that kernel-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7 is
> >  > unbootable on my hp workstation zx6000. VolGroup00 can't be
> >  > found (I've used the default partitionning scheme during the
> >  > installation). No problem with previous
> >  > kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.
> >
> > Probably the changes to use libata PATA drivers instead of the
> > old crusty IDE drivers at a guess.  The most obvious change being
> > the move from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd*.  If you're using
> > mount-by-label, that should 'just work' though, so perhaps either
> > the driver is broken, or it needs a workaround in mkinitrd like
> > the other PATA drivers to wait for the disk nodes to appear in
> > /dev before we go looking for volume groups.
> >
> > Do you know which IDE chipset this uses? (If you know the module
> > that ended up in the initrd, even better).
> >
> > 		Dave
> 
>     It panics, unable to mount on i386 without any LVM too. Asus 
> A7V600, kt600 chipset, both pata an sata drives.  My / is on hd0,0 
> an IDE pata drive.  The sata (all storage) appears to be found 
> before the kernel panics on IDE.  All drives (2 pata, 1 sata) are 
> ext3.
> 
Same thing here with a plain Pentium M laptop (HP Compaq nc4010)

00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) (prog-if ea)
        Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Unknown device 005a
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at 3800 [size=16]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

[root at rivendell gnome]# hdparm -I /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       HTS541080G9AT00                         
        Serial Number:      MPB4LAX6K4MZKM
        Firmware Revision:  MB4OA60A
Standards:
        Used: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a 
        Supported: 6 5 4 
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   65535
        heads           16      1
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:    4128705
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  156301488
        LBA48  user addressable sectors:  156301488
        device size with M = 1024*1024:       76319 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:       80026 MBytes (80 GB)

It failed to mount /dev IIRC.

Cheers
Kjartan

>     (from my other dual boot side, fc6-test, lspci -v)
> 
> 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 
> (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
>         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600/K8V-X/A8V Deluxe 
> motherboard
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
>         I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
>         Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> 
>    Before I saw any of these posts, I had already remade an initrd 
> for 2877. I was ignorant of "the changes to use libata PATA 
> drivers"   I am usin mount by label,
> 
> title FC7 (2.6.19-1.2877.fc7)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7.img
> 
>    According to rawhide report that's 2.6.20rc1
> 
>    Since I share /boot between fc6-test an rawhide, I could see what 
> 2877 initrd contains (both the original an my remake)... but I 
> don't know how
> -- 
>     Tom Brinkman                        Corpus Christi, Texas
>