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#1 2006-03-20 09:42:14

trapdoor
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Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Hey guys,

When I tried booting this morning i got a Kernel Panic.

I tried using archck and the stock kernel, but both give me the same error

VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I chrooted into hda3 and this works perfectly, so any ideas?[/code]

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#2 2006-03-20 11:39:32

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Did you run an fsck on /dev/hda3?


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#3 2006-03-20 12:06:38

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Had the same problem once. I forgot that my HD was connected to a kind of SATA controller.. Try sda3 if you are unsure about that.


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#4 2006-03-20 13:27:25

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Sigi wrote:

Had the same problem once. I forgot that my HD was connected to a kind of SATA controller.. Try sda3 if you are unsure about that.

It worked for like 2 Years with hda3 so i don't think it changes over night

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#5 2006-03-20 14:05:53

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

trapdoor wrote:
Sigi wrote:

Had the same problem once. I forgot that my HD was connected to a kind of SATA controller.. Try sda3 if you are unsure about that.

It worked for like 2 Years with hda3 so i don't think it changes over night

Who knows. Have you updated udev or your kernel lately?


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#6 2006-03-20 14:12:22

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Yep, i did... but i think the problem has something to do with initramfs.

So what i did is, i put in the arch 0.7 installation cd and chrootet into /dev/hda3 and did mkinitramfs, but it always says that /sys/ is not mounted, so how do i do that?

Or is there an easier way, maybe via live cd to fix this?

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#7 2006-03-20 14:23:04

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Does /sys directory exist?
Mayby add initrd-full to lilo as an additional boot label?

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#8 2006-03-20 14:38:38

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

It exists but it isn't mounted, i added initramfs-full to grub, but nothing happened

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#9 2006-03-20 14:54:50

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Can you post your /etc/fstab and your /boot/grub/menu.lst or lilo.conf?


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#10 2006-03-20 21:47:05

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Here we go with fstab and menu.conf

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0

/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home/trapdoor/data reiserfs user 0 0
/dev/hda1              /mnt/win2         vfat   user

and

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26archck root=/dev/hda3 initrd /boot/initramfs-full.img ro

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

Hope this wil help in any way

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#11 2006-03-20 22:09:47

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

Try this, don't know if it helps:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26archck root=/dev/hda3 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.15-archck.img

Cheers Sigi


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#12 2006-03-21 08:51:24

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

I tried it tomorrow, but without any positive result.

Are there any other suggestions? If not, i will backup all my data and reinstall arch.

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#13 2006-03-21 08:59:06

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

What do you mean by "without any positive result"?
Still the same error? Do you have the newest version of mkinitramfs installed?

Cheers Sigi


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#14 2006-03-21 13:28:31

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#15 2006-03-22 20:42:59

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Re: Weird Kernel Panic (more or less solved)

I reinstalled my system and now everything works perfect again, so thanks for your help anyway. I'll mark this thing solved now.

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