[SOLVED] Kernel Panic: VFS Error

G F0rce 1 · Last edited by G F0rce 1 on Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:15 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hey guys,
I'm having this weird problem again, me and VFS don't seem to like eachother, i'm sorry to bother you again, but everything again seems right. I'm have Lilo installed as my bootloader, my root partition is /dev/hda3 and my boot partition is /dev/hda1. My root partition is Ext3, the boot is Ext2 both are compiled in to the kernel. It are just very normal IDE drives, nothing special, the only thing is that it is a 320 Gig drive but that shouldn't be a problem right, the root patition is just 20 Gig of size.
Anyway, when booting i'm getting serverd with the following error:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unkown block (3,3)

What can be the problem?
Thx in advance!
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G F0rce 1 · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject:

At this very moment I'm having even a bigger problem, when I reboot do the whole chroot process and then try tu emerge grub (I unmerged lilo, just as a test), i get the following error, even if I emerge lilo again:

!!! ERROR: sys-boot/lilo-22.7 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_unpack
ebuild.sh, line 712: Called die

!!! IO Failure -- Failed 'touch .unpacked' in /var/tmp/portage/lilo-22.7
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

Don't really know how i caused that?!
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G F0rce 1 · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

Sorry, I'm stupid forgot the proc, tough this doesn't solve my first problem....
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G F0rce 1 · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject:

I'm getting the same error with grub, maybe I need to pass the hda=stroke option or something like that? Because the bios thinks the drive is 137 Gig but it is 320. Tough fdisk from the live cd sees it is 320Gig...
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Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

First, then you should update the mainbaord Bios.
Please post /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab.

G F0rce 1 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:26 am Post subject:

Fstab :

Elexorien · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 60

while I dont know how to solve your problem, I noticed that it appears that your rescue kernel is the same as your main one....

[edit] just thought about it, hehe. if you dont have a working kernel in the first place you cant have a rescue one. I just assumed it was an error when it could just be a placeholder....sorry[/edit]

Elexorien · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 60

G F0rce 1 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Error

G F0rce 1 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject:

Hmm, buidling in all the filesystems is not the solution, probably it's something with chipset support or something like that? I don't know what to do anymore, and I'm kind of panicing because this server needs to be back up as quickly as possible

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G F0rce 1 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I'm starting to think it's this good old one again.
And of course, my other server has the same board so I allready encountred the problem once, and offcourse Neddy solved it for me, and ofcourse I forgot to check. Any how here is my old problem, I'm hoping the same solution is gonna work.
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G F0rce 1 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

And ofcourse it was, I'm so stupid. Neddy thanks again I owe you 2 beers now

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