> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:31 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> Quoting Christian Borntraeger (
borntraeger@de.ibm.com):
>>> Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Serge E. Hallyn:
>>>> Sigh, well this turned out less informative than I'd liked.
>>>> After bisecting 2.6.23 to 2.6.23-mm1, I found that
>>>> git-s390.patch is the one breaking my s390 boot :(
>>>> (Frown bc it's a conglomeration of patches0
>>>>
>>>> Symptom is:
>>>> "Cannot open root device "dasdd2" or unknown-block(94,14)"
>>>> even though dasdd2 appeared to be found earlier in the boot. I also
>>>> get
>>> Can you post the full console output from IPL to the unsuccessful end?
>> Yeah, sorry, appended below.
>>
>> I had thought that the line
>> sysctl table check failed: /sunrpc/transports .7249.14 Missing strategy
>> meant that the fix referenced in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/11/48
>> would fix it, but it appeared to have no effect.
>
> This is the vmlinux.lds.S problem. The cleanup patch from Sam Ravnborg
> moved the __initramfs_start and __initramfs_end symbols into
> the .init.ramfs section. This is in itself not a problem, but it
> surfaced a bug: there is no *(.init.initramfs), that needs to be
> *(init.ramfs). I corrected this in the upstream patch but 2.6.23-mm1 has
> the older one that still causes the "Cannot open root device". For
> 2.6.23-mm1 use the patch below.
>
