On 06/10/18 14:38 (GMT+0200) Marco Fioretti apparently typed:
I have been running for months Suse 10.1 on a pc without any problem. Yesterday, all of a sudden, it stopped working. What happens is that I arrive to the Grub screen where I can choose between Suse 10.1 and Suse/failsafe mode.
If I select the first, or let the timeout expire, the screen goes black in about one second and nothing happens anymore. I have to press the reset button to restart.
if I select the failsafe mode, it goes almost immediately to character mode and freezes after printing "Kernel panic" and something else which unfortunately I had no possibility to write down.
If I boot the Knoppix 4.02 CD, it starts and works just fine, mounts my hard disk, my files are still there... everything OK.
My _feeling_ is that the MBR and/or the /root partition were corrupted in some way. What I'd like to ask is:
1) how could it have happened (that is, excluding hw faults)
I've run into something like that lately, getting an immediate CRC error and/or "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)". I think in my case some sector(s) holding initrd or the kernel were weak. I replaced the HD. Try running several passes of badblocks on the partition holding yours to see if your problem might too be the HD. -- "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped." Psalm 28:7 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/