Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

[Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>]

Andrew;

I suppose that my first thought would be to BIOS differences...
Have you already checked for "memory holes" and "shadow memory"?

What is the size difference between the two kernels?

While I am ignorant of the majority of the differences between 2.0-
and 2.2- kernels is there any chance that a change in the handling of
the disk geometry by the BIOS affects the 2.2 kernel where the 2.0
might ignore the change?

On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:51:33AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> I just had to replace a motherboard in my Linux box (floppy controller
> went bad) and now, for some reason, when I'm trying to boot my 2.2.10
> kernel, I get kernel panic while mounting root fs.
> I can't reproduce the exact message right now, but it seems that while
> booting it's doing a normal partition check and fails then.
> However, I can boot my 2.0.36 kernel off the boot disk without a single
> problem (yet, I might get some headaches because I can not recompile the
> 2.0.36 kernel since I switched to 2.2.10)
> Any idea why 2.2.10 panics and 2.0.36 boots? 
> 
> TIA,
>  Andrew
> 
> 
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