Sorry, was waiting for a reply on this one ... didn't realise it hadn't cc'd linux-scsi ... James On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin, > just a few modules for occasional filesystems. > > CONFIG_MODULES=y > CONFIG_SCSI=y > CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y > CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m > > 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 VFS panics unable to find my root on /dev/sda2, > but boots okay if I change drivers/scsi/Kconfig to "default y" > instead of "default m" for SCSI_WAIT_SCAN. > > I'm sure that's not the right fix, but I don't know what is. > > I've had no trouble with SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y until now: I could > turn it off, but others may have trouble with the same regression. > > Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html