Re: [SLE] Need help really bad...Kernel panic after changing motherboard
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:46 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I had a nice, semi-working system and decided to upgrade the motherboard and processor (why? long story). I went from a PII450 to a PIII850. Everything else stayed the same.
Now when I boot, I get a kernel panic saying; VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:02 Cannot open root device "hdc2" or 16:02 Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ide-cd, errno=2
Again, I didn't change anything other than the board and processor. PCI cards are in the same spot and HD and CD are in the right spots on the board...just like before. During boot I noticed that the kernel started staying my only HD was hda and my CD was hdc. Do this mean anything?
This is my work's email server and I could really use a hand. I'm using 8.2 with GRUB.
Thanks, Tom
Thanks =============
Tom, Sounds to me like your drives got switch. It's possible that you plugged the drives up in the wrong plug on the motherboard.
Pat
Nope. I just stuck in the Suse CD and booted with that. I had fsck fail because of .... (can't remember). But I can see my drive and read everything in it. I just can't boot into it. I'm afraid to run fsck incase something goes south...more south than now. Tom
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:07 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:46 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I had a nice, semi-working system and decided to upgrade the motherboard and processor (why? long story). I went from a PII450 to a PIII850. Everything else stayed the same.
Now when I boot, I get a kernel panic saying; VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:02 Cannot open root device "hdc2" or 16:02 Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ide-cd, errno=2
Again, I didn't change anything other than the board and processor. PCI cards are in the same spot and HD and CD are in the right spots on the board...just like before. During boot I noticed that the kernel started staying my only HD was hda and my CD was hdc. Do this mean anything?
This is my work's email server and I could really use a hand. I'm using 8.2 with GRUB.
Thanks, Tom
Thanks
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Nope. I just stuck in the Suse CD and booted with that. I had fsck fail because of .... (can't remember). But I can see my drive and read everything in it. I just can't boot into it. I'm afraid to run fsck incase something goes south...more south than now.
Tom ================
Ok, so it boots up fine with the CD and the drive is seen ok or do you tell it to boot from the hard drive from the CD? It sounds like from the error you are getting, that it's looking for the boot drive on hdc, but later you say the hard drive is hda? If the hard drive is not in the same place or the same device that it was on the other system, then you are going to get a kernel panic, because it can't find it. I still think you have the devices switched. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
"Tom Nielsen"
Nope. I just stuck in the Suse CD and booted with that. I had fsck fail because of .... (can't remember). But I can see my drive and read everything in it.
Boot the rescue system from CD and check the output of 'fdisk -l' if the disks/partitions are still named and numbered the same. If not, mount your root partition (let's say on /mnt) and edit the configuration depending on the boot loader you use. If it's GRUB, simply edit /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst and be done with it. For LILO, edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf, then do 'chroot /mnt' followed by 'lilo'. Afterwards do an 'exit' to leave the chroot. After having done either, unmount /mnt and reboot. Philipp
Hi there!
1. For the list's sake, PLEASE switch the IDE connectors between them
(replace the IDE1 with IDE2 and IDE2 with IDE1) before making any other
move. :)
2. Try to find out if your bios has some setting like "enhanced" and
"legacy" IDE ...I had a motherboard like that and the only solution was to
boot as "legacy IDE" and install the latest upgrade to the 2.4.20 kernel
from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/kernel/ (although I had a
SuSE 8.1 installed, I HAD TO upgrade the kernel to 2.4.20-SuSE)
Hope this helps...
Radu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Nielsen"
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:46 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I had a nice, semi-working system and decided to upgrade the motherboard and processor (why? long story). I went from a PII450 to a PIII850. Everything else stayed the same.
Now when I boot, I get a kernel panic saying; VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:02 Cannot open root device "hdc2" or 16:02 Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ide-cd, errno=2
Again, I didn't change anything other than the board and processor. PCI cards are in the same spot and HD and CD are in the right spots on the board...just like before. During boot I noticed that the kernel started staying my only HD was hda and my CD was hdc. Do this mean anything?
This is my work's email server and I could really use a hand. I'm using 8.2 with GRUB.
Thanks, Tom
Thanks =============
Tom, Sounds to me like your drives got switch. It's possible that you plugged the drives up in the wrong plug on the motherboard.
Pat
Nope. I just stuck in the Suse CD and booted with that. I had fsck fail because of .... (can't remember). But I can see my drive and read everything in it. I just can't boot into it. I'm afraid to run fsck incase something goes south...more south than now.
Tom
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