> Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> thanks martin,
>
> that helped going a little further in the boot process but we then have
> a network issue when bringing the network interface up :
