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YAOMTC

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 204

Kernel panic on attempted boot with Eee kernel on Eee PC 900

I have an Eee PC 900, and like the 700 line, it uses a Pentium-M processor. I figured I'd try out the custom Eee kernel, as suggested here. It starts and seems to boot pretty fast -- until I reach this point.

Screenshots: 1/2 | 2/2

Is it actually meant only for the 701, and no longer works on the 900? Or is this something that just needs a bit of tweaking?

If the former, is there any kernel designed with the 900 in mind? If the latter, what can I do to fix this?

Last edited by YAOMTC (2010-07-09 06:31:37)

bema

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Registered: 2010-02-12

Posts: 26

Re: Kernel panic on attempted boot with Eee kernel on Eee PC 900

It seems your HDD is not named /dev/sda but /dev/sdb. You could try changing the root= boot parameter according to the partitions listed on the screen.

YAOMTC

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 204

Re: Kernel panic on attempted boot with Eee kernel on Eee PC 900

Here's the entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux EEE kernel
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuzeee root=/dev/sda3 ro

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3
initrd /kernel26.img

# (2) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/fb5c794f-6071-4af0-bf73-8154b43bbe7e ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

Here's my mount -l

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=127275,mode=755)
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda4 on /home type ext4 (rw)

Not sure why sdb is showing up when it's supposed to be sda...

EDIT: Why do the code boxes waste so much space...?

Last edited by YAOMTC (2010-07-09 19:15:35)

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: Kernel panic on attempted boot with Eee kernel on Eee PC 900

Because the sd{a,b,c,...} order is not guaranteed to be consistent across boots.  See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming.