Re: Help - kernel panic (problem SOLVED)

[Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your advice.

Problem has been solved.  It was caused by the bad contact of cable connecting 
the hard drive to ATA controller.

Tks again

B.R.
Stephen

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 18:51, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Stephen Liu (<satimis@icare.com.hk>) wrote:
> >  Debian - unstable
> >
> >  The PC has not been used for couple weeks. On booting it went 'kernel
> >  panic' with following warning;
> >  ......
> >  .......
> >  modprobe : modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3
> >  mount: dev2/root2 is not a valid block device
> >  mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> >  pivot_root: No such file or directory
> >  /sbin/init: 217: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> >  Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init
> >
> >  Kindly advise how to fix the problem
>
> You need support for IDE hard disks (block-major-3). Probably the driver
> is compiled as a module, and you don't use an initrd - without the
> initrd the kernel can't access the driver because it is on the root
> filesystem on an IDE hard disk. Boot into your system, add a line for
> the initrd to your bootloader configuration, run lilo if you use it,
> and reboot.
>
> > Remark: I have a Debian boot disc but I am sure whether it was
> > prepared for this PC or another PC which was also running Debian
> > (unstable). The latter has been erased. In case the boot disc is not
> > working can I have it downloaded from Debian website?
>
> You should be able to boot using an Woody installation CD or a set of
> boot floppies. The installation kernels have compiled-in IDE support.
> E.g. with the first Woody CD you could boot entering
>
> rescbf24 root=hdasomething
>
> best regards
>         Andreas Janssen