On 5/5/08, Johan van den Berg <johanvdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been having issues booting into 2.6.26-rc1 using ata-piix > [snip] > [ 75.689722] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.13.0-ioctl (2007-10-18) initialised: > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > [ 78.211210] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > The failure happens in initrd, as it is unable to find and mount the new > root. As you can see it is actually reading the partition table, so I am not > sure why lvm would not pick up the volume group. Rebooting into an older > 2.6.15 kernel consistently works whereas the 2.6.25 consistently fails. > > I think this might related to > http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2007/05/29/100 where > it was already isolated it to the controller not liking the SRST sequence. > > I have tried disabling IDE (BIOS / recompile without IDE support), have > tried various combinations of older kernels with newer drivers and vice > versa, but the shared ata code is too complex for me to patch per driver. > > Has there been any progress on this so far? > > Johan van den Berg > Managing Director > Teqcle Information Technologies (Pty.) Ltd. > > Email: johanvdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Cel: 0732013520 I don't see my post to this list of last night, but I am having a similar issue with an Intel SATA IDE ICH7 drive in a Dell D620 laptop that uses ata-piix. Last good kernel was gentoo-2.6.25-rc8-git3 Bringing /proc/config forward to the latest git tree, and looking at the missing symbols in the terminal window after a make menuconfig, there was something about a CONFIG_IDE_DEPRECATED that was not carried forward. I'll find the specifics after I get home from work. Promises to be a fine introduction to bisecting. -- Christopher Smith Pursuer of knowledge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
