Re: [proaudio] 2.6.17-r3 problems

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/27/06, krgn <k.gebbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi Mark,
>
> thanks, that was already very helpful, I saw now actually how different
> things are from .16 to .17 so luckily I ended up with a newer, different
> error which is now more complicated to show, since I don't reach a stage
> anymore, where I can grab a log or so.
> Bascially, when reaching something like this stage here,
>
>                    VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>                    Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096
> bytes)
>                                   ..........
>                    VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>                     Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
>
> the newer kernel tells me something like it can't mount my root
> partition and that 'block(0,0)' is unknown. I double checked against my
> old config, changed the new one to the old settings and recompiled, but
> no joy. I appended the new config so maybe someone who might have a clue
> what this might be, can have a look.
> normally, my root partition is mounted like this:
>                 /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,user_xattr)
> and I also checked again grub settings and the fstab file, but there was
> nothing strange, so must assume its something about the configuration,
> or the kernel again (since my old one boots fine with the same grub
> settings)
> any idea about VFS?
>
> thanks,
>
> KArsten

Hi Karsten,
(Or is it actually KArsten with two capitals? Please excuse my
confusion there. I'd very much like to address you properly. Thanks.)

I don't really have a clue exactly what this problem is but I took a
look around on web using Google. A few things came up:

1) Did you remember to build ext3 support into the kernel? Note how
mine below says it's mounting ext3.

2) It seems that someone might have had an issue like this caused by
ACPI. You could try acpi=off on your boot command line edited in by
hand or added in grub.

When my AMD64 machine boots I see this:

<SNIP>
ACPI wakeup devices:
HUB0 XVR0 XVR1 XVR2 XVR3 USB0 USB2 MMAC MMCI UAR1
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
*****************************************************************************
*                                                                           *
*  REMINDER, the following debugging options are turned on in your .config: *
*                                                                           *
*        CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES                                             *
*        CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT                                               *
*                                                                           *
*  they may increase runtime overhead and latencies.                        *
*                                                                           *
*****************************************************************************
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1
Adding 2008084k swap on /dev/sda10.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2008084k
EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
<SNIP>

  Since there is ACPI stuff immediately before and after it seems
worth looking at.

  I suppose you don't have a second Linux box to do the null modem
cable trick where you can capture the boot stuff on a different
machine? Helpful during times like these.

  Write back with more info and we can keep trying. At least that's
two ideas for now.

Cheers,
Mark