> hi
>
> i have the same problem:
OK I am going back to try and reproduce this here, I think I know how
to I was building the kernel when I hit it.
Steve
>
> Start mounting filesystem: ide0(3,6)
> Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: ide0(3,6)
> VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
> this happens with console on VT or serial.
> i use ide disks.
>
> the same kernel boots on a ext2 root partition without problems
> (lilo: root=/dev/hda4). the xfs root fs is mountable und xfs_check
> reports no errors.
>
> hope that helps.
>
> utz lehmann
>
>
>
> Marcelo E. Magallon [marcelo.magallon@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a problem as of late with our XFS test box (and I haven't
> > had the time to take a look at it until today). The kernel boots,
> > mounts the root partition (XFS) and tries to open the initial console
> > and fails. If I pass the rw parameter to the kernel, it's able to get
> > an initial console, eventually the root filesystem gets remounted ro
> > and the boot fails (this is probably a problem in the SuSE boot
> > scripts). This started happening arround the time 2.4.0 was checked
> > in. At the moment I'm working my way thru this:
> >
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001228.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001229.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001230.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001231.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20010101.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20010102.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-prerelease+athlon.20010103.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS-prerelease+athlon.20010104.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010106.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010107.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010108.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010109.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010110.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010111.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010112.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010113.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010114.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010115.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010116.tar.gz
> > kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010118.tar.gz
> >
> > (the missing builds are due to problems in the box that actually builds
> > the kernels)
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > --
> > Marcelo
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