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Hi Guys
beachcoder gave me the hardware we're talking about as a gift, and now I am stuck with almost the same error.
What I did:
I hooked up the HDD on another box and installed Arch (i686) via USB Pendrive there. Everything went fine. I was able to boot via cryptsetup and lvm2 and everything. So the installation went just fine like always. So all was okay on the other box. I then built in the HDD into the HP eVectra and that's when I got this Kernel Panic (I can only post the last few lines visible on my TFT screen):
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Registering the dns_resolver key type
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
registered taskstats version 1
rtc_cmos 00:03: setting ystem clock to 2011-01-10 23:50:32 UTC (1294703432)
Initializing network drop monitor service
List of all partitions:
No filesystem could mount root, tried:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36-ARCH #1
Call Trace:
[<c1303a85>] ? printk+0x18/0x1b
[<c1303968>] panic+0x61/0x166
[<c1436ce3>] mount_block_root+0x236/0x259
[<c1002930>] ? do_signal+0x60/0x870
[<c110a357>] ? sys_mknod+0x27/0x30
[<c1436d5f>] mount_root+0x59/0x5f
[<c1436e7f>] prepare_namespace+0x11a/0x15e
[<c10fca30>] ? sys_access+0x20/0x30
[<c14369ea>] kernel_init+0x1c4/0x1d3
[<c1436826>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1d3
[<c1003d3e>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x18
I wrote that by hand from the screen, so ther emight be minor glitches... But well, that's about it...
GRUB is:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:lvm root=/dev/mapper/arch-root ro
initrd /kernel26.img
Hint: I also tried noacpi and noalpic and noapic
My mkinitcpio.conf hooks are:
base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb usbinput keymap encrypt lvm2 filesystems
Mhh just wondering if it would work without autodetect... Stand by.
EDIT: No, still not working...
Guys, I am desperate. Whoever can solve this and make this box run Arch i686, I buy one crate of beer (per PayPal). *BOUNTY*
Last edited by akurei (2011-01-10 23:25:24)
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Oh btw: All stock kernel and stuff...
I *think* it might be some module that's missing for the controller of this particular machine.
On the other hand: Does not the stock -ARCH kernel include all modules possible?
EDIT:
Maybe the initrd isn't loaded properly?
I now tried
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 initrd=/kernel26-fallback.img cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:lvm root=/dev/mapper/arch-root ro
But nothing.
I also tried the following kernel lines (:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 cryptdevice=/dev/hda2:lvm root=/dev/mapper/arch-root ro
initrd /kernel26.img
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:lvm root=/dev/arch/root ro
initrd /kernel26.img
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:lvm root=/dev/mapper/arch-root ro break=y
initrd /kernel26.img
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:lvm root=/dev/mapper/arch-root ro rootwait break=y
initrd /kernel26.img
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:someothername root=/dev/mapper/arch-root ro
initrd /kernel26.img
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:lvm root=/dev/mapper/arch-root ro noapic nolapic acpi=off pnpacpi=off
initrd /kernel26.img
Everytime a kernel panic - not syncing.
Debian 4 ran just fine... So there IS some driver / module to get that beast working.
Last edited by akurei (2011-01-11 22:16:51)
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Could some Mod please split this thread in two parts (starting with my first post (#8)) here, because this clearly isn't a PXE issue anymore and I want to edit the "first post" to change the topic!
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Split.
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Thank you, litemotiv
I toyed around a bit with the GRUB commandline stuff, but with the same results.
Tomorrow I will try to hook up a CD drive to the box and boot some other distribution and see if that bug is Arch related. After that, if that has a negative outcome, I will try and boot Debian 4 (of which I know that it works) and look if it some regression in current kernels.
Still... If anyone has a clue of what is going on here: Do not hesitate to post here: There's a bounty after all!
Last edited by akurei (2011-01-11 23:02:49)
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Giving up... Somehow my last IDE harddisk just broke and does not work anymore and I am not going to buy a new one.
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