[SLUG] 2.6.8.1 Kernel Panic sorted out (sort of)

[Rod Butcher]

I got 2.6.8 to boot by changing lilo.conf to "root=/dev/sda1" (was 
/dev/hda1 for 2.6.3 &b 7). Seems 2.6.8 now treats SATA as true SCSI 
drives, at least for bootup. Strange.... what is 2.6.7 doing ? In my 
investigations into this I found something (and lost it again) which 
talked about the "old" way Linux would handle a SATA drive as a 
pseudo-IDE drive, but while this was in use a real IDE drive could not 
use the primary IDE channel, only the secoundary, due to some driver 
conflict. Which may or may not explain the problem I had a few weeks 
back trying to get a Seagate IDE disk on the primary IDE channel to 
co-exist with a SATA drive - it wouldn't, so I moved it to the secondary 
IDE and it's been OK since.
To test this out I need to move this IDE disk back to the primary and 
see how it goes under 2.6.8.
However... if this works OK, it would show that 2.6.3 was still using an 
obsolete driver protocol or whatever you call it, instead of SCSI 
already, surely ?
cheers
Rod

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Is anybody aware of this problem ? Mandrake are still getting it with
10.1 beta, and I get it with the source from kernel.org. I've seen some
inconclusive posts about not making ext3 a module, and about changes to
SATA handling (from IDE to SCSI) which I've checked OK in .config, but I
understand that isn't new in 2.6.8. Error reads :-
error 6 mounting ext3
pivot_root (/sysroot,  /sysroot /initrd) failed : 2
kernel panic : no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
my /boot does contain initrd-2.6.8.1.img, vmlinuz-2.6.8.1, etc.
Has someting in 2.6.8 been tweaked  requiring different or new lilo boot
options ?
thanks
rod
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