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fosstux
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 Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:53 am Post subject: SOLVED: Kernel panic und lilo problem |
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Hello!
I have now reinstalled my linux system several times and always end with a kernel panic.
When booting I get the following error:
| Code: | | kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 |
The next error when booting is
| Code: | | Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08 |
But during the installation of lilo I get the following messages when executing lilo to get the boot manager working:
| Code: | Warning: /proc/partitions does not match the /dev directorz structure.
Name change: '/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/sda'
This kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted as a kernel command-line parameter; hence the /dev dierectorz structure does not reflect DEVFS_FS device names. |
But I have, as it is told, selected the entry for /dev file system and automount in the kernel. 
Another strange thing is that I don't have any folder named ide or scsi for my devices.
I'm using the gentoo-sources 2.4.22-r5 kernel.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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volumen1
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:17 am Post subject: Your disks? |
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Are your hard drives scsi drives or are they weird in any other way? I would make sure that if they are that you have support for SCSI or SATA or whatever built into your kernel (and not as a module). Also, make sure that you have support for whichever filesystem you are using for your root partition built into the kernel (again, not as a module).
Or, if you are building these as modules, you'll need to be using an initrd image. That gets you out of the whole chicken and the egg deal. (i.e. The machine can't load the module to read the filesystem because the module is on the same filesystem).
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FreeFly42
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Kerel panic und lilo problem |
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| crparr wrote: | | I have now reinstalled my linux system several times and always end with a kernel panic. |
"If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always had" (Wasn't that Deming?)
In addition to the DEVFS option, there's a kernel option for auto mounting devfs which you should probably enable also.
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
| Code: | File systems --->
[*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*] Automatically mount at boot |
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fosstux
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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I've solved the problem. I had selected reiserfs, mey ide controller and my Promise ide controller as modules. Now they're compiled into the kernel and now it's working.
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FreeFly42
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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There you go, now wasn't that better than just starting over with another re-install!! 
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