Re: Vaio Can't reboot after kernel upgrade
Indeed I did - and that was the problem. Thanks - for others who may have
rushed headlong into upgrading into devfs, what I did to fix it was to
boot to a rescue disk, type "linux root=/dev/hda4" (insert your /
partition there), and edit /etc/fstab to use the devfs style devices
(e.g., /dev/discs/disc0/part4).
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> * Andrew Perrin (clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu) wrote:
> > This morning I upgraded the kernel on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS from 2.4.20
> > to 2.4.22. Everything went very smoothly, until I rebooted the machine --
> > at which point it seemed to begin fine, then tried the fsck on /dev/hda4
> > which holds / . fsck says "bad superblock" and drops into single-user
> > mode with an instruction to fix the problem manually and reboot. Oddly
> > enough, though, even fdisk /dev/hda says "Unable to open /dev/hda" -- so
> > the block device itself isn't visible, even though that's the device that
> > was booted from.
> >
> > My top candidate right now is that the driver for the disk (IDE, I
> > assume) was accidentally left out of the new kernel, or was loaded as a
> > model. Any other suggestions for what the problem might be are welcome.
> > Finally, short of reloading the OS from scratch, any advice on how I might
> > rescue it?
>
> Have you enabled Devfs in the new kernel? I did this, and I had to
> reboot with an old kernel, and recompile, with devfs turned off.
>
> --
> ,''`. Philip Stubbs
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