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Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs



On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:04:34AM +0000, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote:
> Basically, if my /boot/vmlinuz image exceeds a certain size (the limit seems be
> somewhere around 900000 bytes), the following occurs on boot:

Whoa!  Huge kernel!  Module some of that stuff out and it should
help if there's some hidden size limitation.  I have a pretty big
kernel, the bzImage is 644,225 bytes.

> hdc6: bad access: block=2, count=2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 2
> EXT3-fs: Unable to read superblock
> hdc6: bad access: block=2, count=2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 2
> EXT2-fs: Unable to read superblock
> hdc6: bad access: block=0, count=1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 0
> NTFS: Reading super block failed
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:06

Is your drive going bad?  Are the filesystems OK?

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