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SubjectRe: linux-kernel-digest V1 #100
> From: mlord <mlord@pobox.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:31:45 -0500
> Subject: Re: 1.3.79 won't boot
>
> Chris Ricker wrote:
> >
> > Hey industrious kernel-hackers,
> >
> > I tried upgrading to 1.3.79, but it won't boot. When it tries to
> > initialize block devices and mount the root file system, it says that it
> > "can't find root file system on 03:45" and then panics.
> >
> > I have NO idea where the 03:45 is coming from, so I don't know what
>
> Well, 03:40 means "hdb", and 03:45 therefore means "hdb5".

Well, that would make sense--hdb5 was my / partition.

> > information is relevant and necessary to fix the problem ;-). I guess
> > the change was something in 1.3.78 (which I never got to compile),
> > because 1.3.78 --> 1.3.79 didn't change ide stuff.
> ...
>
> 1.3.78 also did not change ide stuff.

Actually, according to the kernel change summaries, some stuff was
changed with 1.3.78, but the changes were taken back out with 1.3.79, so
it obviously wasn't that ;-)

>
> Mmmm.. very strange.
>
> Why did the partition check get done twice at boot time in your system?

Because I have two partitions, so it checks each one.

> What does kerneld have to do with this?

Nothing that I know of, though I was running it.

That drive booted fine with 1.3.80. Of course, after I had 1.3.80 up for
a couple of hours, that drive (hdb, it was a western digital ide) died
completely--it just quit spinning, and will not spin up at boot anymore
(I had a fun time re-installing linux last night on my spare drive ;-).
Perhaps the kernel was warning of impending drive failure?

chris



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