Messages in this thread | | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.46: SCSI and/or ReiserFS v3.6 broken? Kernel panic (fwd) | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:13:20 +0100 |
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Am Mittwoch, 6. November 2002 09:47 schrieb Karsten Weiss: > Hi Andrew! > > > Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 > > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:03 > > > > That was happening to me yesterday as well. After a bit > > of poking around and recompiling, it mysteriously went away. > > > > The same has happened about ten times over the past few months, > > and rebuilding the world makes it go away. On ext3. > > > > Something is definitely fishy. It's unhelpful that it cures > > itself just as you get geared up to fix it. > > > > Does a full rebuild fix it for you? > > For what it's worth (maybe it does ring a bell): > > We have the same problem with kernels >=2.4.19 on ext3 partitions. It > happens in the last line of the SuSE-7.3 initial ramdisk linuxrc script.
OK, it is a SuSE 7.3 based system.
> However, if we comment out the last line of linuxrc it works:
I have no "linuxrc" file.
Even without initrd (didn't use it anyway) it do _NOT_ work.
> [...module loading skipped...] > mount -n -t proc proc /proc > mount -n -t ext3 /dev/sda4 /mnt > rm -f /mnt/.initrd 2>/dev/null > mkdir -p /mnt/.initrd > cd /mnt > pivot_root . .initrd > umount -n /.initrd/proc > !!! > exec sh -c 'umount -n /.initrd; rmdir /.initrd ; mount -n -oremount,ro /' > </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1 !!! > > The affected machines are HP X4000s (dual Xeon, 4 GB RAMBUS, SCSI > harddisks)
With "pci=noacpi" at the boot prompt I get the aic7xxx "debug mode". How can I dump such stuff to a screen, file, line printer? => SCSI and not ReiserFS
Without 2.5.46 ;-(
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