Re: GRUB 0.5.97 doesn't handle kernel parameters

[tschweikle]

> From: address@hidden
> Subject: GRUB 0.5.97 doesn't handle kernel parameters
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:45:06 +0200
>
>> Booting with 'boot' now leads to a kernel panic. Initrd isn't found and
thus
>> the SCSI driver is missing and /dev/sdc5 couldn't be mounted. GRUB
0.5.95
>> didn't had any problem.
>
>  What does the kernel print on the screen, and which version of Linux
> do you use?

Linux version 2.2.16 (address@hidden) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
(release)) #1 Wed Aug 2 20:03:33 GMT 2000
Detected 350803 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 132x43
Calibrating delay loop... 699.60 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255268k/262132k available (1460k kernel code, 412k reserved, 2924k
data, 68k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (address@hidden)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0720, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 64000K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
PIIX4: device not capable of full native PCI mode
PIIX4: device disabled (BIOS)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
LVM version 0.8e  by Heinz Mauelshagen  (4/1/2000)
lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
raid1 personality registered
raid5 personality registered
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
scsi : detected total.
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GRUB 0.5.97 does not load initrd:

Partition check:
request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:25
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mounz root fs on 08:25

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GRUB 0.5.95 loads initrd:

Partition check:
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 2000 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk...
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
(scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/6/0
(scsi1) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 392 instructions downloaded
scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4
       <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 2 hosts.
(scsi1:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
  Vendor: IBM-DTTA  Model: -351010           Rev: T56O
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(scsi1:0:3:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 16.
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: DVD-ROM SD-M1201  Rev: 1011
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
(scsi1:0:4:0) Using asynchronous transfers.
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: CD-ROM XM-5401TA  Rev: 3605
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
(scsi1:0:5:0) Synchronous at 8.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31.
  Vendor: YAMAHA    Model: CRW4416S          Rev: 1.0e
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: E.08
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
(scsi1:0:8:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
  Vendor: IBM       Model: DRHS36V           Rev: 0270
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 19807200 [9671 MB] [9.7
GB]
 sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > sda3
sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
sdb : extended sense code = 2
sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
 sdb:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 72170879 [35239 MB]
[35.2 GB]
 sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 < sdc5 sdc6 sdc7 sdc8 sdc9 > sdc4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed
Adding Swap: 265036k swap-space (priority -1)
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 08:28) ...
Using tea hash to sort names
ReiserFS core development sponsored by SuSE Labs (suse.com)
Journaling sponsored by MP3.com
ReiserFS version 3.5.23
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Olympic.c v0.4.0 3/10/00 - Peter De Schrijver & Mike Phillips
tr0: IBM PCI tokenring card. I/O at a800, MMIO at d010c000, LAP at
d010e000, using irq 11
Olympic: 1 IBM PCI Token Ring card(s) found in system.
3c59x.c:v0.99H 12Jun00 Donald Becker and others
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xb000,  00:50:da:36:cf:c8, IRQ 10
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
  MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 address@hidden)
nfsd_fh_init : initialized fhcache, entries=512
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

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Thomas