Re: Kernel Panic | boot | Unable to mount root fs | Reiser FS
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:11:57PM +0100, Mariano Kamp wrote:
> a couple of hours ago I used to have a SuSE 8.1, Kernel 2.4.18, system
> with an ide and scsi drive. The system used to boot from the scsi drive.
>
> During this morning I wanted to _upgrade_ the system to debian.
> Therefore I started the woody installation from cdrom and partitioned
> the hd with the provided tool from the installation menu.
>
> I created three primary partitions:
>
> * /dev/sda1 8 MB, Type Linux
> * /dev/sda2 512 MB, Type Swap
> * /dev/sda3 17 GB, Type Linux
>
> I initialized /dev/sda2 as swap, /dev/sda1 as ext3 and /dev/sda3 as
> reiserfs.
>
> /dev/sda3 has been mounted as "/".
Does your kernel have reiserfs support compiled into it ( not module)?
You can check in /boot/config-$KERNEL
> [ ... loads of installation details omitted ... ]
>
> The last step before rebooting was to make the system bootable. I
> selected
>
> A. to boot from /dev/sda1
> B. to boot from /dev/sda3
>
> I repeated the steps a couple of times and can't remember each step
> exactly, but I've been asked to confirm that having an IDE and SCSI
> drive can result in not beeing able to boot from the SCSI drive. I don't
> believe that this is the problem though as it is working fine with the
> previous installation with SuSE.
>
> No matter if I used A or B when booting the machine it says "L " and
> then adds "01 " constantly. No LILO, no nothing.
Exerpt from /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz
LILO start message
- - - - - - - - -
[...]
L <error> ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and
started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit
error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section "Disk
error codes".) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a
geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section "Disk
geometry").
[...]
Disk error codes
- - - - - - - -
If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image,
the respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes
are known:
[...]
0x01 "Illegal command". This shouldn't happen, but if it does, it may
indicate an attempt to access a disk which is not supported by the
BIOS. See also "Warning: BIOS drive 0x<number> may not be accessible"
in section "Warnings".
> Using the CDROM to boot the system and issuing the following commands
> at the lilo prompt
>
> A. rescue boot=/dev/sda
> B. rescue boot=/dev/sda1
> C. rescue boot=/dev/sda3
>
> Linux comes up, but panics. The last lines read like this:
>
> [network stuff]
> Partition check:
> hda: [PTBL] [2433/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> [ apm stuff ]
> request_module[block-major-58]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device 3a:05
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05
>
> Any ideas?
Other than my question of "What happened to /dev/sda"? The major block
device number 58 is "Reserved for logical volume manager" (devices.txt)
3a:05 would seem to correspond to LVM.
Reiser and EXT3 are compiled as modules with the Debian kernel that I
have here (2.4.19-586tsc). Your rootfs cannot be compiled as a module.
For your system to boot, you need to use a different kernel, or set your
root partition to a filesystem with compiled in support (such as EXT2).
> Should I try something else but Reiser fs? What type would I have to
> had set when using cfdisk for Reiser fs?
> Woody, installation from retailed cd, Compaq SP750, One XEON1G, 512MB
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