Re: suddenly boot problems - unable to mount root FS
Hi Jens,
Am 11.07.2008 um 20:12 schrieb W4/Webmaster:
hi,
a server which was running for two years now without any problems
doesn't boot anymore after energy-problem. crashed down, because usv
was defekt.
first i thought, the harddisk is bad. starting the server with a
live-cd (knoppix) works. fsck of the two partitions hda1 (root) and
hda3 (data) said clean.
i i try to boot the system, i get the following error:
Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-
block (3,1)
Looks like the bootloader is misconfigured.
To fix, just boot from Live-CD, mount the disk, chroot into it and
check the bootloader's settings.
Or, at a boot command line, add root=/dev/hda1 to the parameters, or
in grub: root (hd0,0).
startscripts in /etc/rc... can not be executed.
Do you mean you can't run them when booting from cd?
the harddrive is the master on the first ide - channel. dvd-drive is
master at the second ide-channel. ide-drivers are built in the
kernel (no module).
in my opinion, the system tries to start from the dvd-drive ->
(3,1). so i thought, i am very clever and changed hdd and dvd. if i
try to boot with the devices changed, i get the folowing error ->
Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-
block (0,0)
I'm not so sure what these numbers really mean: why did it change to
(0,0) and not (0,1), when it was (3,1) in the first place?
nice, it tries to start again from / on dvd. we didn't change
anything on this machine. no updates, installations, ... it is just
running in an intranet as a local server.
is here anybody who can help me or has any idea how to get this
system wirking again? by the way - it is debian sarge.
thx for any idea and/or hint for a solution!
jens
Hope that helps a bit.
Best regards,
Christof Glaser
--
-- gl.aser -- software & gestaltung . http://gl.aser.de/
Reply to: