Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Louis Richards <louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Wilkes wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2004, at 4:50 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> > Try reiserfsck from the rescue system (CD or DVD).
>
>
> I did.  It does the consistency checks and reports no errors.
>
> > Otherwise, check that etc/fstab matches your partition numbers and 
> > types.
>
>
> I can mount /dev/hda3 on /mnt from the rescue system and look around.  
> My /mnt/etc/fstab says that /dev/hda3 is mounted on / and is a 
> reiserfs, which is correct.
>
> The last few lines of boot output are:
>
> Freeing initrd memory: 501k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).     <<== is this the ramdisk?
> Loading module reiserfs...
> Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or 03:03
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> You may want to retry boot with pci=noacpi or acpi=oldboot on the 
> command line
> ...  etc.
>
> I tried pci=noacpi and acpi=oldboot, and neither one made any difference.
> I tried adding root=/dev/hda3 to the command line.  No difference.  
> Likewise root=0303.
>
> What is nls_iso8859-1 and why is boot complaining about it?
>
> Guidance and insight will be greatly appreciated.
>
> /jw
> --
> John Wilkes
> john at wilkes dot com
I think that module is for VFAT support. Check "/etc/fstab" after 
mounting from rescue boot.

HTH

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Louis D. Richards
LDR Interactive Technologies