Re: Kernel Panic!..VFS.....
Mark,
Yes, thank you for reminding me the missing bits (The machine with broken O/S is
not with me at the moment, I'm sorry that I have not jotted them down properly).
Now, presuming what you said is right and once I've checked out the number,x
in the error message "VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:0x". What command
should I do to fix the problem and get the O/S back to live?
Cheers,
Wilson
Mark Suter wrote:
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> Wilson,
>
> > When my machine boots up, Linux is auto-probing the hardware, then it
> > stops and pops up an error message "Kernel Panic......VFS........"
> >
> > I tried to use a 'rescue' disk and did the e2fsck, but it said the '/'
> > partition was clean.
> > I could mount the '/' partition and navigate the directories, but just
> > can't boot up?
> > What could be wrong?
>
> It is probable that the filesystem you tested is not the same one
> the kernel is trying to mount as the root filesystem. The error
> message should include the filesystem that was being tested, as
> in the following example.
>
> VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:05
>
> These numbers, "3" and "5", are the major and minor device
> numbers, that is /dev/hda5, as follows
>
> $ ls -l /dev/hda?
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda3
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda4
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda5
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda6
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda7
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 8 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda8
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 9 Mar 29 15:25 /dev/hda9
> Yours sincerely,
>
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