Hi, I am getting the following error when my system gets panic it tries to switch into mini kernel ( pre-loaded one). pre-loaded the mini kernel with the following option. /* kexec -p /usr/u/seetharam/bin/vmlinux.10888 --initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.20-aruba_0.0.10888.img --command-line=" root=/dev/system/rootvol console=ttyS0,19200n8 SPEED=19200 init 1 maxcpus=1 irqpoll " --serial-baud=19200 --console-vga --console-serial --args-linux */ [root at tc210 root]# mount | grep root /dev/system/rootvol on / type xfs (rw,sync) [ 359.466225] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [ 359.506286] [ 359.506287] Call Trace: [ 359.529762] <IRQ> [<ffffffff81053cc8>] __report_bad_irq+0x38/0x90 [ 359.567313] [<ffffffff81053dcd>] note_interrupt+0x8d/0xd0 [ 359.600086] [<ffffffff81054483>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x93/0xb0 [ 359.634936] [<ffffffff8100c85d>] do_IRQ+0xfd/0x170 [ 359.664071] [<ffffffff8100a231>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xb [ 359.695286] [<ffffffff8102bfac>] vprintk+0x23c/0x250 [ 359.725459] [<ffffffff81053350>] handle_IRQ_event+0x20/0x60 [ 359.759271] [<ffffffff81053d91>] note_interrupt+0x51/0xd0 [ 359.792041] [<ffffffff81054574>] handle_edge_irq+0xd4/0x110 [ 359.825851] [<ffffffff8100c85d>] do_IRQ+0xfd/0x170 [ 359.854990] [<ffffffff81016b9e>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x30 [ 359.892953] [<ffffffff8100a231>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xb [ 359.924167] <EOI> [ 359.936736] handlers: [ 359.950292] [<ffffffff81200ac0>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x80) [ 359.981610] [<ffffffff81200ac0>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x80) [ 360.012927] Disabling IRQ #19 [ 360.046773] generic_sse: 5497.000 MB/sec [ 360.072317] raid5: using function: generic_sse (5497.000 MB/sec) [ 360.108256] md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=1048576, MD_SB_DISKS=27 [ 360.146413] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com [ 360.196921] md: raidcm personality registered as nr 9 [ 360.227155] IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 360.252222] GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 360.276890] TCP cubic registered [ 360.296234] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 360.322311] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 360.348987] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 360.374099] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 360.400775] 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> [ 360.441379] All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem at redhat.com> [ 360.889982] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. [ 360.914522] md: autorun ... [ 360.931240] md: ... autorun DONE. [ 360.951151] RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 [ 361.045990] RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608 [ 361.429544] VFS: Cannot open root device "/dev/system/rootvol" or unknown-block(0,0) [ 361.475850] Please append a correct "root=" boot option [ 361.507115] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [ 361.556556] I have given the cmd parameter "irqpoll" but, suggesting me to use irqpoll...:) Please help me in this regards. Thanks, Seetharam