USB Bootingt VFS kernel panic

Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB Bootingt VFS kernel panic
started by: ptietjens

Posted by ptietjens on Oct. 07 2005,16:59

On a Dell Optiplex GX280, on which SLAX boots fine from USB - DSL throws a fit when "searching for CD on" and evenrtually ends up in a kernel panic complaining about root fs.

This same USB stick boots fine on an IBM and a whitebox we have in the office.

Any suggestions?

Posted by ptietjens on Oct. 14 2005,18:27

On this same machine, booting from CD works, but does not detect USB devices.

lsmod showed no ehci-hcd driver loaded. Loading it gives me this error:
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 00:1d.7

The machine then hard-locks.

The same behavior is not seen from the Debian sarge 2.6 kernel on the same hardware.

Posted by ptietjens on Oct. 14 2005,21:07

The whole problem went away with RC1. Huzzah!