Re: Kernel Panic SOLVED Questions concerning incident
I went into OS2 and used e2fsck on the partition and fixed the structure. I now have two questions regarding this incident:
Why didn't Linux fix the file system at boot? Why did I have to do it from OS2?
When I booted back into Linux I got
/dev/hda5 reached maximal mount count, check forced
What does this mean?
Jens B. Jorgensen suggested booting from a rescue diskette and running e2fsck. I have a boot floppy but not a rescue diskette. How do I create a rescue diskette?
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> > I had my system hang last night while running a statistical process. I used Ctrl-Alt-Delete to
> > reboot. Now I get a kernel panic.
> >
> > UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted .......
> >
> > HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS ...........
> >
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
> >
> > Does 03:05 mean 3rd harddisk, 5th partition? Linux is on Harddisk 1, partition 05.
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> 03:05 means the device with major number 3, minor number 5. This is in fact /dev/hda5.
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> > Other things I have tried.
> >
> > Booting from floppy, same error.
> >
> > I have OS2 on my system as well. I dualboot to DOS and try the Debian install CD, but I get
> >
> > boot from dos install
> > ran out of input data ---system halted
> >
> > When I was compiling a kernel before I was able to use this to reset lilo but now it won't
> > work.
> >
> > I have ext2-os2 so I should be able to read my linux partitions from OS2, but I am not able to
> > read the Linux partition.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?
>
> Boot the rescue disk. After you get to the menus go down all the way to the option to exit to a
> shell. At the shell prompt run: 'e2fsck /dev/hda5' to fix the file system.
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> Jens B. Jorgensen
> jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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