Debugging kernel panic on boot.

[Simon Andrews]

Andy Green wrote:

> That "Unable to access resume device (/dev/sda3)" isn't normal, it
> usually says something different IIRC.

Yes, it seems that for some reason the ATA driver isn't able to access 
the drive on these later kernels.

> Therefore I would guess it can't talk to your drive properly.
> 
> Recent kernels couldn't bring up a network device on one machine here,
> staring at it further /proc/interrupts showed 0 interrupts associated
> with that device.  Adding pci=biosirq to the kernel commandline got that
> working again, so give it a try.  Press 'A' at the grub prompt and addit
> on the end of the bad kernel's commandline.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried that but still no dice.  Exact same 
failure as before.  I've also tried disabling the onboard SCSI 
controller (which isn't being used) in case that was interfering, but 
that made no difference either.

Simon.