Re: kernel panic
Umm, so you are using potato, and kernel 2.4.9? Well, especially if you
use a modular kernel, this is a problem, you need to have modutils from
woody or sid, they support 2.4.x kernels. If you can boot to your system
using your installation CD, as I suppose you can, just install a new
modutils package from woody or sid, and maybe modconf too if you use that,
and see if that helps.
Regards,
- Teppo
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Tom Allison wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2001 04:29, Bjorn Eriksson spewed forth:
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Mariusz Zielinski wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 17 October 2001 03:40, Tom Allison wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > That's when things started getting weird.
> > > > I think I also changed the kernel to include devfs & ide-cd (IDE-ATAPI
> > > > support for my CDROM drive).
> > >
> > > I think the problem is devfs. It changes naming of the devices and
> > > /dev/hda6 isn't /dev/hda6 anymore. Try booting kernel without
> > > devfs.
> >
> > Using kernel parameter devfs=nomount
> >
> > Next time, keep your old kernel around for backup! HTH.
>
> Thanks! I tried reading up on this devfs thing and found something that got
> me a little closer:
> LILO: linux root=/dev/ide/part5
> resulted in:
> VFS: mounted root (cramfs filesystem)
> Waiting for 5 sseconds, press ENTER to obtain a shell
> modprobe: Can't locate module ext2 <<I know this is *BAD*>>
> Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream
>
> I love the kernel messaging! But not the message.
> I suppose at this point I have to figure out what happened to my modules, or
> what my kernel thinks I did with my modules.
> Question: In order for this kernel to compile, I had to remove the
> modversions portion (keep track of modules by kernel version) which I've
> never seen before.
> Where is is trying to find the modules?
> /lib/modules/ instead of /lib/modules/2.4.9/ ?
>
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