FC3: Kernel Panic 2.6.12-1.1372

[rich+ml at lclogic.com]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Chris Stark wrote:

> On two separate machines with SATA drives, the 2.6.12-1.1372 kernel
> update causes a nearly immediate kernel panic during boot. It appears to
> be an initrd problem, as the systems do not reach the interactive boot
> phase before crapping out. The kernel boot info scrolls along as usual
> until it hits the SATA devices, then SPLAT!!!

Hi all, I have same problem, booting with 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp on Dell
SC1425 with SATA /dev/sda yields:

  ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_port_start
  insmod: error inserting '/lib/ata_piix.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module

and loader subsequently oopses after it fails to mount root.

modprobe.conf does indeed contain:

  alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix

No issues booting from the stock FC3 kernel:

  SCSI subsystem initialized
  libata version 1.02 loaded.
  ata_piix version 1.02
  ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
  PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
  ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xCCF8 ctl 0xCCF2 bmdma 0xCCC0 irq 177
  ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xCCE0 ctl 0xCCDA bmdma 0xCCC8 irq 177
  ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
  ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 78125000 sectors: lba48
  ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
  scsi0 : ata_piix
  ata2: SATA port has no device.
  scsi1 : ata_piix
    Vendor: ATA       Model: ST340014AS        Rev: 8.12
    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
  SCSI device sda: 78125000 512-byte hdwr sectors (40000 MB)
  SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back

I'd be happy to use the old kernel if there was a way to revert the
kernel-dependent stuff installed by yum (hald, irqbalance), any ideas?
== Rich

(PS apologies for previous broken message)