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skale
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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 Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:05 am Post subject: kernel panic |
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Here's the deal. I got LILO to dual boot gentoo and WinXP. XP boots great, but gentoo does not. It says "kernel panic - no syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3, 3)"
My linux partition is hda3. I suppose that the partition cannot be mounted. Not sure what "no syncing" does.
I have searched this fairly thoroughly, and found quite a few possible solutions. First off, the kernel has ext3(along with every other bloody filesystem I saw) support and IDE support (got an IDE HD)built in, not as a module. So much for that. The second solution I found had to do with "initrd" or something. I picked up a fuzzy idea what it does, but do not know how to do it. I think that it could be either that or a faulty fstab or lilo.conf file. lilo.conf is exactly by the book, and fstab is good as well. I'll post them here just in case:
fstab(without the #'d blabber):
| Code: | # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
#/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd iso9660 auto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat auto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
lilo.conf:
| Code: | boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=20
default=gentoo
image=/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
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If there is an error or something, that would be nice. If I need to do all the initrd stuff(shudder) I will need help with that.
If it's something different, that's cool too. I really have no idea what the problem is.
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jmbsvicetto
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: Re: kernel panic |
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Hi.
| skale wrote: | Here's the deal. I got LILO to dual boot gentoo and WinXP. XP boots great, but gentoo does not. It says "kernel panic - no syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3, 3)"
My linux partition is hda3. I suppose that the partition cannot be mounted. Not sure what "no syncing" does.
lilo.conf:
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image=/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
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Try taking out the read-only entry. Don't forget to run lilo afterwards. Does it work now? What storage controller do you have - lspci?
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Zmyrgel
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| I withdraw my answer as it is not valid after reading the first post.... silly me. |
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Ohm
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Hello skale!
I had the same problem. The advice i got from irc #gentoo was turning off the filesystems other then ext2 and ext3 (ntfs, dos etc) from kernel. This didn't help however, nor did the other solutions found over the net.
I fixed the problem seccesfully, by rebuilding kernel using
#genkernel all
and writing lines to lilo.conf, which are recomended by handbook for genkernel users (with initrd and all the stuff).
However, I'm still seeking for an elegant way to deal with it, cos I don't want to have my kernel large and slow. |
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