On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:30:33PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote:
> debs,
>
> successfully, i've done a compile of source kernel
> 2.2.16 for my potato deskbox; but trying to do the same
> thing (approximately 5 times) on my slink lapbox leads
> to the infamous "kernel panic." the first re-boot (via
> floppy) after the compile is fine. it's the next
> re-boot after that, that things get weird.
Second reboot is from floppy or hard drive? What did you change?
> ...the last line before hanging:
>
> kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount fs on 03:01
>
>
> here's my partition scheme:
>
> / on hda1 (1.5gb)
> swap on hda5 (66mb)
> hda3 (500mb) (for storing large files (e.g. kernel
> sources, netscape, wordperfect...) that i don't want to
> re-download after i re-install slink).
Why don't you post your partition table:
$ fdisk -l /dev/hda
> before the compile, slink was using kernel 2.0.36
> (/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36). (after the compile, i moved
> the old kernel to /boot/oldvmlinuz-2.0.36, as i
> thought, perhaps needlessly, that the new kernel
> (/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16)) needed its own "vmlinuz"
> "identity."
Did you re-run lilo, manually?
> in case the compile is at issue, here's what i did from
> "bt:/usr/src/linux#":
>
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make install
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
>
> there isn't, nor will there be, another os on the
> lapbox, just "dlinux."
>
> the rescue disk won't even let me "backdoor" the
> system: "mount failed: invalid argument" (when i tried
> to mount hda1).
Give commands and output.
> anyway, ...suggestions/options?
>
> ia, t.
>
> bentley taylor.
Suggest you try a boot disk such as Tom's Root Boot, mount the HD,
chroot to the root FS, and re-run lilo, or indicate what commands and
what errors result in attempting to do so.
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