On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin, > just a few modules for occasional filesystems. > > CONFIG_MODULES=y > CONFIG_SCSI=y > CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y > CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m > > 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 VFS panics unable to find my root on /dev/sda2, > but boots okay if I change drivers/scsi/Kconfig to "default y" > instead of "default m" for SCSI_WAIT_SCAN.
Hmm ... it sounds like there's a missing scsi_complete_async_scans() in your environment? What's your configuration ... which SCSI drivers, and which are modules? scsi_wait_async_scan is supposed to be unnecessary unless you have modular SCSI drivers that the initrd needs to wait for root on. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
