On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:24 PM, John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, John Kacur wrote: >> >>> VFS: Cannot open root device >> >> Do you use an initrd boot disk? If so make sure the initrd is correct. >> Sometimes it is best to first get a 2.6.26 kernel booting without initrd >> and then use that same config on the -rt kernel. >> >> -- Steve > > Thanks Justin and Steve for the hints - it turned out to be simple, > somehow the make install scripts were mangling the location of the > initrd, a quick edit to grub and everything is working again. > John > >> >>> "disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVS-WD-WXEZ07100576-part 7" or >>> unknown block(0,0) >>> Please append a correct "root = " boot option; here are the available >>> partitions. >>> Pid:1,comm:swapper Not tainted >>> 2.6.26-rt1-default#1linux-rt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> [< ffff ffff 8046 c149 >] rt_mutex_lock+0x22/0x50 >>> [< ffff ffff 8046 cae6 >] _mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10 >>> [< ffff ffff 8020 cb00 >] exit_intr+0x10/0x1e >>> [< ffff ffff 8028 633d >] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1e/0x133 >>> [< ffff ffff 8020 d608 >] child_rip+0xa/0x12 >>> [< ffff ffff 8020 cb69 >] restore_args+0x0/0x30 >>> [< ffff ffff 8020 d5fe >] child_rip+0x0/0x12 >>> >>> preempt count 00000001 >>> 1-level deep critical section nesting >>> [< ffff ffff 8047 43e2 >] .... panic +0x43/0x167 >>> [< ffff ffff 8073 6338 >] (<= mount_block_root+0x258/0x26f >>> >> >> > Cool; yeah last week this happened as well to me, something so simple. causing me to run around freaking out. regards; -- Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html