[Yaird-devel] Bug#336993: [sto@debian.org: Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15]

[Sven Luther]

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:24:28 +0100
From: Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto at debian.org>
To: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15
Message-ID: <20060212152428.GA18402 at uv.es>
Mail-Followup-To: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org

El Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Wouter Lueks va escriure:
> It's been some time since I updated my kernel.  I'm currently using a
> self-compiled 2.6.12 kernel.  It thought it was time to check out the
> stock debian kernels since the seemed to be working very good for a lot
> of people.
> 
> So I went ahead and installed the debian kernel and hoped it would boot. 
> However, no matter what I try I keep getting the following error:
> 
> "VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"
> 
> The root-fs is XFS, and the xfs module is included in the initrd module. 
> I couldn't find any major differences with other yaboot.conf files, so
> I'm a bit at a loss on how to solve this.

This is caused by a known bug on yaboot and XFS that afects initrd images
build using initramfs and yaird (the old mkinitrd images DO work, though).

The bug is not assigned to yaboot, but I've found a that includes an
explanation:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336993

I solved the issue making a small ext3 /boot partition to put my initrd there
and now standard kernels work (I'm using initramfs right now); luckily I made
a 1Gb swap partition when I first installed the machine and was able to split
that one in two instead of reinstalling.

Greetings,

  Sergio.

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