The system here is a dell optiplex gx110 workstation, PIII cpu. My boot
drive is SCSI hanging off of an adaptec aha-2940uw. lspci output is pasted
in below. Kernel 2.6.3 is working great for me, so I guess I'll be sticking
with it. I also have a 2.4.21 kernel that boots cleanly on this system. I
have a separate /boot partition which is an ext2. All other partitions (/,
/usr, /home) are xfs.
My 2.6.4 kernel source is from the cvs tree at oss.sgi.com. I pulled the
update on March 15th, 2004 at around 11 PM central time.
config used is at http://shoshana.dnsalias.org/config-2.6.4.txt
When I try to boot the resulting kernel, it panics with an unable to mount
root fs error:
...
VFS: cannot open root device "sda5" or sda5
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on sda5
john@gx110:~$ uname -a
Linux gx110 2.6.3 #1 Thu Mar 11 10:11:29 CST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
john@gx110:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller
Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset
Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U
01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller
(Link)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
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