Re: [SLE] (please help) Kernel Panic: unable to mount root FS -- boot problems with 2.4.2x
At 04:32 PM 4/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Better is to get 2.4.X sources and ensure to compile it with ReiserFS filesystem enabled, then boot that kernel.
Is there any reason to belive that SusE's 2.4.2x update rpm does not have ReiserFS support included? I can't see why it wouldn't...anyone know?
- Nestor
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Howdy,
I'm having a lot of trouble booting after installing the latest kernel rpm. I keep getting kernel panics if I try to boot linux_2.4. It works fine if I boot the image named "suse".
I've tried manually giving it the root=/dev/sda4 option but it doesn't like that either.
I also tried using the CDs "boot installed system" option, and it tells me that /dev/sda4 isn't a valid root device. I tried using the rescue system to mount that partition and is says it isn't a valid block device, however I think that's a module problem i.e. there's not a SCSI module included in the rescue system.
As I said, I can boot if I use the "suse" lilo image, but I get lots of errors about modules.
What is the "suse" image? I do not have a 2.2.x kernel installed. Is it safe to run depmod while booted into the "suse" image? Or will that make things worse?
Everything was working fine until installed the latest 2.4.2x kernel from the update dir of ftp.suse.com.
BTW /dev/sda4 is where / is, and it's a ReiserFS partition. /dev/sda3 is /boot and dev/sda2 is swap.
Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated
TIA,
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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I haven't tried "update kernels" from RPM, I use to download the source RPM and compile it for my system. But AFAIK, the ReiserFS is only available under the "incomplete code/drivers" (I mean you have to enable it before you can select it as an option for the kernel). Don't know if the 2.4.X RPM have been built with this option enabled. - Nestor On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
At 04:32 PM 4/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Better is to get 2.4.X sources and ensure to compile it with ReiserFS filesystem enabled, then boot that kernel.
Is there any reason to belive that SusE's 2.4.2x update rpm does not have ReiserFS support included? I can't see why it wouldn't...anyone know?
- Nestor
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Howdy,
I'm having a lot of trouble booting after installing the latest kernel rpm. I keep getting kernel panics if I try to boot linux_2.4. It works fine if I boot the image named "suse".
I've tried manually giving it the root=/dev/sda4 option but it doesn't like that either.
I also tried using the CDs "boot installed system" option, and it tells me that /dev/sda4 isn't a valid root device. I tried using the rescue system to mount that partition and is says it isn't a valid block device, however I think that's a module problem i.e. there's not a SCSI module included in the rescue system.
As I said, I can boot if I use the "suse" lilo image, but I get lots of errors about modules.
What is the "suse" image? I do not have a 2.2.x kernel installed. Is it safe to run depmod while booted into the "suse" image? Or will that make things worse?
Everything was working fine until installed the latest 2.4.2x kernel from the update dir of ftp.suse.com.
BTW /dev/sda4 is where / is, and it's a ReiserFS partition. /dev/sda3 is /boot and dev/sda2 is swap.
Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated
TIA,
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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Did you choose "Prompt for developement and/or incomplete code/drivers"? Without that option you can't choose reiserfssupport, which per se doesn't make sense, but that't the way it is. Good luck! tisdagen den 17 april 2001 23:51 skrev Jonathan Wilson:
At 04:32 PM 4/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Better is to get 2.4.X sources and ensure to compile it with ReiserFS filesystem enabled, then boot that kernel.
Is there any reason to belive that SusE's 2.4.2x update rpm does not have ReiserFS support included? I can't see why it wouldn't...anyone know?
- Nestor
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Howdy,
I'm having a lot of trouble booting after installing the latest kernel rpm. I keep getting kernel panics if I try to boot linux_2.4. It works fine if I boot the image named "suse".
I've tried manually giving it the root=/dev/sda4 option but it doesn't like that either.
I also tried using the CDs "boot installed system" option, and it tells me that /dev/sda4 isn't a valid root device. I tried using the rescue system to mount that partition and is says it isn't a valid block device, however I think that's a module problem i.e. there's not a SCSI module included in the rescue system.
As I said, I can boot if I use the "suse" lilo image, but I get lots of errors about modules.
What is the "suse" image? I do not have a 2.2.x kernel installed. Is it safe to run depmod while booted into the "suse" image? Or will that make things worse?
Everything was working fine until installed the latest 2.4.2x kernel from the update dir of ftp.suse.com.
BTW /dev/sda4 is where / is, and it's a ReiserFS partition. /dev/sda3 is /boot and dev/sda2 is swap.
Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated
TIA,
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
At 12:04 AM 4/18/2001 +0200, you wrote:
Did you choose "Prompt for developement and/or incomplete code/drivers"? Without that option you can't choose reiserfssupport, which per se doesn't make sense, but that't the way it is. Good luck!
I did not rebuild the kernel. It is a package compiled by SuSE from ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/kernel/ I already installed the k_deflt_24-2.4.2-4.i386.rpm package from that directory on one of my single-cpu boxes (with ReiserFS) and it works fine, but the SMP version, k_smp_24-2.4.2-5.i386.rpm, failed miserably. I just finished putting the default one back on there and it works fine. Can someone from SuSE please tell me what the deal is here? Did y'all forget to enable ReiserFS support on your SMP package? P.S. for the rest of you, I am not going to compile my own kernel - sorry.
tisdagen den 17 april 2001 23:51 skrev Jonathan Wilson:
At 04:32 PM 4/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Better is to get 2.4.X sources and ensure to compile it with ReiserFS filesystem enabled, then boot that kernel.
Is there any reason to belive that SusE's 2.4.2x update rpm does not have ReiserFS support included? I can't see why it wouldn't...anyone know?
- Nestor
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Howdy,
I'm having a lot of trouble booting after installing the latest kernel rpm. I keep getting kernel panics if I try to boot linux_2.4. It works fine if I boot the image named "suse".
I've tried manually giving it the root=/dev/sda4 option but it doesn't like that either.
I also tried using the CDs "boot installed system" option, and it tells me that /dev/sda4 isn't a valid root device. I tried using the rescue system to mount that partition and is says it isn't a valid block device, however I think that's a module problem i.e. there's not a SCSI module included in the rescue system.
As I said, I can boot if I use the "suse" lilo image, but I get lots of errors about modules.
What is the "suse" image? I do not have a 2.2.x kernel installed. Is it safe to run depmod while booted into the "suse" image? Or will that make things worse?
Everything was working fine until installed the latest 2.4.2x kernel from the update dir of ftp.suse.com.
BTW /dev/sda4 is where / is, and it's a ReiserFS partition. /dev/sda3 is /boot and dev/sda2 is swap.
Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated
TIA,
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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