7.2 Install successful, but every boot fails.
Okay, thanks to Volker I made it this far... Now comes another odd problem. This system board has onboard SCSI, and I have four scsi devices: 0: an 8 gig Seagate SCSI drive 1: an 8 gig Seagate SCSI drive 2: a Plextor 32X UltraPlex CDROM 3: a Plextor 4X PlexWriter Anyway, in this SMP system (iWill DBS100 motherboard, 2 Pentium III's @ 450 MHz each), I get this far, and then the boot just stops: ... request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 08:03 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 And that's where it stops. This happens both when the system bios is configured to boot in the order: A,C,SCSI, as well as SCSI,A,C I've done two separate from-scratch installs, one with Kernel 2.2 for SMP, one for Kernel 2.4 for SMP - same results. /boot is /dev/sda1 swap is /dev/sda2 / is /dev/sda3 /pub is /dev/sdb1 Ideas? Am I missing an important lilo hardware parameter? Argentium
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 21:10, Argentium G. Tiger wrote:
Anyway, in this SMP system (iWill DBS100 motherboard, 2 Pentium III's @ 450 MHz each), I get this far, and then the boot just stops:
... request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 08:03 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03
And that's where it stops.
/boot is /dev/sda1 swap is /dev/sda2 / is /dev/sda3 /pub is /dev/sdb1
Ideas? Am I missing an important lilo hardware parameter?
I think you might be able to fix this with something like: disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 in your lilo.conf global section. Can you bring the system up by booting from CD and selecting "boot installed system"?
At 21:51 08/01/2001, naurgrim@karn.org wrote:
I think you might be able to fix this with something like:
disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80
in your lilo.conf global section. Can you bring the system up by booting from CD and selecting "boot installed system"?
Hrm... tried that, no luck. I think it has something to do with a missing /var/lib/modules matching set of modules for the kernel I installed (SMP 2.4 based). I'm going to flip back to my 7.1 Pro CD's and see how the machine takes an install using that method. If it goes a lot easier, I think I'll stick with 7.1 for now. 7.2 was just an experiment I wanted to try out tonight. Many thanks for the help, Argentium
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On August 2, 2001 01:01 am, Argentium G. Tiger wrote:
Hrm... tried that, no luck. I think it has something to do with a missing /var/lib/modules matching set of modules for the kernel I installed (SMP 2.4 based).
I just did my first 7.2 install and formatted the root partition as reiserfs, like I usually do. I ended up having the same problem. I have an ext2 /boot partition for kernels. Imagine my horror when I found that reiserfs was *not* compiled into SuSE's default kernels. It was compiled as a module. *arrgh* 7.2 didn't even set up an initrd so that I could boot. I ended up booting from a boot disk, and recompiling my kernel with reiserfs enabled. I wonder why, all of a sudden, SuSE decided to remove reiser? - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7aU0m+FOexA3koIgRAmyKAKC0pPT67CX6nfKt4LIROsJJbeToyQCfRDCM UxqHAJ6Qzql1gAw0J79JGrE= =2GwY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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