Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 Version: 2.6.26-5 Severity: normal I just upgraded my ThinkPad 760 ED from Etch to Lenny. Everything in the userland works fine under the Etch kernel, but the Lenny kernel can't find it's root filesystem. It says something like "Waiting for root file system" and then falls into an initramfs shell after a minute or two.
Etch's 2.6.18 kernel boots fine. It also immediately finds and mounts the root fs. Since I could neither find any /dev/hd* nor any /dev/sd* using the initramfs shell of the 2.6.26 kernel, I suspect the kernel messages marked with a "<--" below to be the cause for not finding the root fs: ---snip--- [...] [ 21.065487] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver [ 21.065749] ide: Assuming 33 MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 22.320593] PIIXa: IDE controller (0x8086:0x122e rev 0x02) at PCI slot 0000:00:01.0 [ 22.321073] PIIXa: bad irq (0): will probe later <-- [ 22.321259] PIIXa: IDE port disabled <-- [ 22.321401] PIIXa: IDE port disabled <-- done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... [ 72.897108] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 507481960 ns) done. Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/hda3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! [...] ---snap--- (All text above transscribed from the screen manually, so there may be typos in. :-) /proc/cmdline contains: root=/dev/hda3 ro pci=biosirq (pci=biosirq was a try to get around the issue, also happens without, see below.) /proc/modules contains: piix 6532 0 [permanent], Live 0xc380a000 ide_core 91444 1 piix, Live 0xc3844000 floppy 47620 0 - Live 0xc381c0000 thermal_sys 10784 0 - Live 0xc380600 /dev/ does not contain any hd* or sd* devices. Google found the line "PIIXa: bad irq (0): will probe later" only twice, and one of these cases was a ThinkPad 760 ED, too: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2003-July/000150.html http://geoffair.net/fg/txt/DMESG-04.TXT Adding pci=biosirq as suggested in the first link didn't change anything. "PIIXa: IDE port disabled" isn't found at all by Google. lspci -v output under Etch's 2.6.18: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430MX - 82437MX Mob. System Ctrlr (MTSC) & 82438MX Data Path (MTDP) (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 Kernel modules: ipmi_si 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE Kernel modules: ipmi_si, piix 00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168 Memory at 10812000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 12000000-13fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 14000000-15fff000 I/O window 0: 00001000-000010ff I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus Kernel modules: ipmi_si, yenta_socket 00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168 Memory at 10811000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 16000000-17fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 18000000-19fff000 I/O window 0: 00001800-000018ff I/O window 1: 00001c00-00001cff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus Kernel modules: ipmi_si, yenta_socket 00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/938x/968x (rev d3) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 Memory at 08000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at 08400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 08800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Kernel modules: ipmi_si, tridentfb 00:05.0 Multimedia video controller: IBM MPEG PCI Bridge Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11 Memory at 10810000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Kernel modules: ipmi_si lshw output under Etch's 2.6.18: bijou description: Computer width: 32 bits *-core description: Motherboard physical id: 1 *-memory description: System memory physical id: 0 size: 48MiB *-cpu product: Pentium 75 - 200 vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 1 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] version: 5.2.12 size: 150MHz width: 32 bits capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 *-pci description: Host bridge product: 430MX - 82437MX Mob. System Ctrlr (MTSC) & 82438MX Data Path (MTDP) vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 100 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: latency=32 *-isa description: ISA bridge product: 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:01.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: isa bus_master configuration: driver=PIIX_IDE latency=0 module=piix *-pcmcia:0 description: CardBus bridge product: PCI1130 vendor: Texas Instruments physical id: 2 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:02.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pcmcia bus_master configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=192 module=yenta_socket *-network description: Avaya Wireless PC Card product: Version 01.01 vendor: Avaya Communication physical id: 0 slot: Socket 0 resources: irq:3 *-pcmcia:1 description: CardBus bridge product: PCI1130 vendor: Texas Instruments physical id: 2.1 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:02.1 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pcmcia bus_master configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=64 module=yenta_socket *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: TGUI 9660/938x/968x vendor: Trident Microsystems physical id: 3 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:03.0 version: d3 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: latency=0 *-multimedia UNCLAIMED description: Multimedia video controller product: MPEG PCI Bridge vendor: IBM physical id: 5 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:05.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: latency=0 *-ide description: IDE Channel 0 physical id: 0 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logical name: ide0 *-disk description: ATA Disk product: IBM-DPRA-21215 vendor: IBM physical id: 0 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logical name: /dev/hda version: 99C60LE7 serial: 1L47L4B2494 size: 1160MiB (1216MB) capacity: 1160MiB (1216MB) capabilities: ata dma lba iordy partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: signature=2623738a *-volume:0 description: EXT3 volume vendor: Linux physical id: 1 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED],1 logical name: /dev/hda1 logical name: /boot version: 1.0 serial: be2c7d87-85e9-4d08-a059-ad7078357025 size: 31MiB capacity: 31MiB capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized configuration: filesystem=ext3 modified=2008-09-24 16:07:35 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,data=ordered mounted=2008-09-24 16:07:35 state=mounted *-volume:1 description: Linux swap volume physical id: 2 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED],2 logical name: /dev/hda2 version: 1 size: 153MiB capacity: 153MiB capabilities: primary nofs swap initialized configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096 *-volume:2 description: EXT3 volume vendor: Linux physical id: 3 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED],3 logical name: /dev/hda3 logical name: / logical name: /dev/.static/dev version: 1.0 serial: c7c26021-8a60-4c7f-9301-3df6751b280b size: 974MiB capacity: 974MiB capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized configuration: filesystem=ext3 modified=2008-09-24 16:07:28 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,data=ordered mounted=2008-09-24 16:07:28 state=mounted *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 2 logical name: eth0 serial: 00:02:2d:66:97:79 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=orinoco driverversion=0.15 firmware=Lucent/Agere 7.28 ip=192.168.10.150 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-486 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92j tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 recommends no packages. 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