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Fitzsimmons
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Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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 Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 2:13 am Post subject: Why is my boot not working?? |
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Hi. My boot with lilo is getting the following kernel panic:
| Code: | | Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:44 |
Why would that be? You can take a look at my lilo.conf and my fdisk -l outputs:
lilo.conf
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# Start LILO global section
menu-scheme=Wb
boot = /dev/hda
prompt
map = /boot/System.map
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
lba32
timeout = 50
default = Windows
vga = normal # Normal VGA console
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/bzImage
root = /dev/hdb4
label = Gentoo
read-only # read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows
table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
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fdisk -l /dev/hda
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Disk /dev/hda: 13.6 GB, 13662609408 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1661 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1660 13333918+ 7 HPFS/NTFS [aka WinXP]
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fdisk -l /dev/hdb
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Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30736613376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 13 104391 83 Linux [/boot, ext2]
/dev/hdb2 14 90 618502+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 91 345 2048287+ b Win95 FAT32 [shared drive]
/dev/hdb4 346 3736 27238207+ 83 Linux [/, reiserfs]
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What's wrong?? Would this have something to do with / being reiserfs? I also noticed that none of the partitions on hdb are "boot", so do I need to enable that with fdisk? Thanks for any help you can give me. |
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PT_LAmb
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| Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Have you enabled reiserfs support on the kernel setup. It must be built-in.
Good Luck,
Ricardo Cordeiro 
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Fitzsimmons
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| Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 2:40 am Post subject: |
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ARG. That's probably it. Gosh-darnit. Now i'l have to recompile my kernel. !@#!$#
Oh well.
Thanks for your help. |
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