From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: Upgrading from Linux 2.4.9-13 to 2.4.9-21 with a pretty same /usr/src/linux- 2.4/.config the kernel is unable to mount the root device at boot time; and stop with "bad root= option" for lilo. This problems appears on CompaQ DL580, DL380 with SMART 4XX controller. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade kernel-source and kernel-headers from 2.4.9-13 to 2.4.9-21 2. Compile a brand new kernel without initrd support and with cpqarray module build in in the kernel 3. reboot Actual Results: unable to mount root device Expected Results: -- Additional info: I usally compile a custom kernel and do not use initrd with a lilo entry like image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1
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