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aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

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kernel...im in panic :P

well the dont panic installation all went well...i didnt installed a new version os arch linux over a year now..so i did a fresh install...used the latest iso...installed on of my custom kernel..and puff:
Loading root filesystem module...
Attempting to create root device name for '/dev/sda6'
unknown
ERROR: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype=kernel parameter

Waiting for device to settle...done
Root device '/dev/sda6' doesn`t exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/sda6'
ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device '/dev/sda6'
Dropping to a recovery shell
NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary
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ramfs$

tryed all the possible known kernel all do the same..even ck...unless ARCH kernel

how the hell this is happening?

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: kernel...im in panic :P

Did you add the "rootfstype=" kernel parameter as the error suggests?

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

Post your grub config.

aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

i used mkinitcpio -p to rebuild it...its fine now..thanks anyway for the help

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IsSuE

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Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 309

Re: kernel...im in panic :P

damn, i get exactly the same error with 2.6.23-ARCH. kernel26kamikaze used to work fine, but -ARCH wont boot, printing the above error. I tried: appending rootfstype=ext3, changing sda6 to hda6, booting with /dev/disk/by-uui/, removing pata out of my mkinitcpio, but nothing worked, now i am stuck, currently using kamikaze again.

Any hints?

edit: menu.lst

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

Last edited by IsSuE (2007-11-27 12:24:21)

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: kernel...im in panic :P

Just a thought perhaps your harddrives get recognised in a different order. Try  root (hd0,0)

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IsSuE

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

root(hd0,0) wont work too. Funny thing is, it works with 2.6.23-kamikaze, but wont work with 2.6.23-ARCH and kernel26zen-git.
Any hints?

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: kernel...im in panic :P

How about trying persistent device naming? I use disk-by-label as I have a removeable ide drive in my sata system and it used to mess up my settings when removed.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

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IsSuE

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

already tried disk by uuid, but no go

IsSuE

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

bump, no one can help?

kishd

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

IsSuE, does the arch fallback kernel boot?

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IsSuE

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Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

negativ. Yesterday i compiled kernel26zen-git which wont boot too. But 2.6.23-kamikaze works, as i am currentyl working with it

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

Try building the vanilla kernel from AUR and see if it boots. If that boots fine than you would have to isolate which patch is causing the kernel to fail to boot.

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kishd

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

Check out our overlord's solution in this thread

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40478

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IsSuE

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Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: kernel...im in panic :P

mhh my /dev/sda6 does not get created after the error message, i checked multiple times