What is nls_iso8859-1 and why is boot complaining about it?
I think that module is for VFAT support. Check "/etc/fstab" after mounting from rescue boot.
No VFAT in my fstab. I am not familiar with details of the boot process, but I infer from the output that /dev/hda3 is never mounted as the root partition, so I am skeptical that the problem could be in any file on that partition. Based on what I've found with Google, it's acting like the kernel does not have reiserfs support, but I don't think that's the case either because the "failsafe" boot, which boots the distributed kernel using the distributed initrd, exhibits the same problem. Maybe I'll try 20 minutes of SuSE support for forty bucks and see if they can get me sorted out. Thanks for the suggestion, and if you or anybody else has any ideas, I'd be most grateful to hear them. /jw -- John Wilkes john at wilkes dot com On Apr 29, 2004, at 6:40 AM, Louis Richards wrote:
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.
HTH
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Louis D. Richards LDR Interactive Technologies
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