Hi, Just received a Dell PowerEdge 2600 (with no OS), and installed SuSE 8.1. Installation seemed to go OK, but when asked to reboot, I hit a problem The information in the log 'window' indicates the following... Lots of unresolved symbols with /lib/modules/2.4.19-64GB-SMP/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.o Followed by... Loading module reiserfs ... Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-64GB-SMP/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno =2 VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or 08:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 Any idea on my next step? Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 10:50am up 6 days, 16:40, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01
On Monday 20 January 2003 10:57, Phil Shrimpton wrote: Hi,
Just received a Dell PowerEdge 2600 (with no OS), and installed SuSE 8.1.
Installation seemed to go OK, but when asked to reboot, I hit a problem
Lots of unresolved symbols with
/lib/modules/2.4.19-64GB-SMP/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.o Loading module reiserfs ... Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-64GB-SMP/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno =2 VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or 08:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03
I have made some progress with this... I updated the megaraid module with the one available from www.domsch.com/linux and now when I boot.. mptbase finds and installs 2 adaptors mptscsih finds them both as well but then fails with... scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0 mptscsih: OldAbort scheduling ABORT SCSI IO mptscsih: ioc0: Issue of TaskMgmt Successful! SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - trying harder SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out again - probably an unrecoverable SCSI bus or device hang. then the same for ioc1 Any ideas? Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 4:18pm up 6 days, 22:07, 1 user, load average: 0.56, 0.12, 0.04
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:57:05AM +0000, Phil Shrimpton wrote:
Followed by...
Loading module reiserfs ... Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-64GB-SMP/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno =2 VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or 08:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03
Any idea on my next step?
It could be wrong SCSI module. I'm not sure about 2600, on 2450 it was aacraid (not aic_7xxx) Check the line scsi_hostadapter in /etc/modules.conf and possibly rebuild initrd. Regards, -Kastus
On Monday 20 January 2003 10:57, Phil Shrimpton wrote: Hi,
Just received a Dell PowerEdge 2600 (with no OS), and installed SuSE 8.1.
Installation seemed to go OK, but when asked to reboot, I hit a problem
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno =2 VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or 08:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03
OK, I am now up and running (not got much hair left <g>) This is what I did (not sure if the order is important.). - Changed bootloader from GRUB to lilo - Set "acpi=off" in my boot options - updated the megaraid module with the one from www.domsch.com/linux - changed the INITRD_MODULES line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel so that mptbase was before mptscsih Its easy once you know how <g> Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 5:12pm up 6 days, 23:01, 1 user, load average: 0.62, 0.17, 0.05
participants (2)
-
Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka
-
Phil Shrimpton