eek, kernel panic.

JeffSquared · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2003 Posts: 24

I recently emerged supertux. I ran it afterwards, got a blank screen with a blinking white cursor.

Hit a bunch of keys, got to a prompt, logged in, rebooted. Or at least it started to, then stopped -- I hit the power button.

Turned computer on, it booted normally, got to the login screen (it didn't display my login manager as normal) tried to log in, but it paused for a second after I entered a user name, and went straight back to the prompt for a username. Did this indefinitely.

Rebooted via the power button. Now it stops mid-boot and says:

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

Were you running the game SuperTux as root ? ( not good )
How does your fstab looks like ?
Was installing SuperTux the only thing you did ? because this looks like some sort of disk corruption.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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Smokey` · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 6:49 am Post subject:

okay, i dont know how SuperTux done it, but it seems your kernel seems to have lost it's filesystem code for your root filesystem...

boot up the livecd, chroot into your system, and just configure your kernel to support your root partition's filesystem (not as a module, it must be built into the kernel), and recompile and install it...

if you dont know what i mean by root filesystem:
root filesystem = your main parttion's filesystem, check /etc/fstab to see what your root parition is, and what it's filesystem is...

plate · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

Please refer to this collection of kernel panic fixes.