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dmolavi
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 Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject: SOLVED: Kernel Panic: Install on PowerEdge 1750 |
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For how I figured this out, read this post.
Here's the setup:
Dell PowerEdge 1750
Two drives, 73GB each, in a RAID1 config.
When I installed via LiveCD, the drive was seen as /dev/sda.
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/boot /dev/sda1 (ext2)
/dev/sda2 (swap)
/ /dev/sda3 (ext3)
/home /dev/sda5 (ext3)
/var /dev/sda6 (ext3)
/opt /dev/sda7 (ext3)
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my grub.conf read:
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root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.28 root=/dev/sda3
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However, upon boot, I get a kernel panic:
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VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" at 08:03
VFS: Unable to mount root
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as well as a line about specifying a valid "root=" line.
Now, when I got into /dev, I see lots of sdaX, sdbX, sdcX, and sddX entries, as well as an "ataraid" directory with lots of dXpY entries (0<X<2, 1<Y<15).
So, what would be the proper entries for grub, and correspondingly, for the /etc/fstab file?
Thanks in advance,
DM
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ckdake
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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-Do you have SCSI disk support compiled into your kernel?
-Do you have EXT3 support compiled in too?
If both of those are yes, theres probably some hardware driver you are missing. What is the output of "lsmod" on the live cd? Your motherboard may be emulating some funky SCSI chipset that you need support for as well.
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dmolavi
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:29 am Post subject: |
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SCSI support: yes, compiled in.
EXT3, yes, compiled in.
I've made sure to compile in all modules listed by lsmod during liveCD installation.
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zend
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:47 am Post subject: |
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what is your kernel?
I use 2.6.10-rc2-mm4
everything is OK.
my box is dell pe 1750 too |
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dmolavi
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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2.4.28
i might give it a whirl with the 2.6 kernel...
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dmolavi
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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problem solved. see the first post for a link to where to get more details.
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grimm26
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Can you drop a hint as to what you did? That URL is no longer valid.
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dmolavi
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hehe...it's being moved to a new server, and should be up soon. unfortunately, i don't have access to my DB backup right now to pull the text from the db, but as soon as i can find it, i'll post here.
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