"/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Is device mapper driver missing from kernel ?
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.15-ioctl (2004-04-07) (compat) and kernel driver
Warning: The boot sector and map file are on different disks
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
Added DOS"
when I try to reboot from C: using the newly installed & apt-upgraded kernel I get
"Error -3 While decompressing ! c0355f8c(1027641439)->d7c20000(4096) VFS: Cannot open root device "345" or unknown-block (3,69) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3,69)"
Tux:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use Mounted on
/dev/hdb5 1369008 218325 1079997 17% /
tmpfs 191980 0 191980 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 19991104 10655424 9335680 54% /mnt/DOS
/dev/hdb2 7746 6970 376 95% /boot
/dev/hdb9 18951504 3723408 14265404 21% /home
/dev/hdb6 12342396 1934112 9781352 17% /usr
/dev/hdb7 1872960 435864 1341916 25% /usr/local
/dev/hdb8 1824768 298408 1433588 18% /var
/dev/hde5 7692876 8 7302092 1% /home/cyberia
/dev/hde6 1344016 8 1275736 1% /usr/cyberia
... previously /boot was showing 100% full.
Tux:/boot# ls . -la
system.map-2.6.5-1-686 787887
lost+found 1024
boot.0300 512
map 73728
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1-686 1125072
config-2.6.5-1-686 52167
initrd.img-2.6.5-1-686 4009984
and four symlinks range: 31-34
The boot error message makes reference to an unknown block. This may be due to
my use of 'parted' to increase space in /usr which was previously 99% full.
This was successful, but my attempt to increase the size of /boot was not -
I'm at a loss to understand why.
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root % parted /dev/hdb
----<snip>----
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc is
4865/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M
(parted) print
-----<snip>-----
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
2 0.031 7.844 Primary ext3 boot
1 7.844 38162.219 extended
5 956.997 2337.583 logical ext3
7 2384.679 4243.732 logical ext3
8 4290.829 6102.817 logical ext3
9 6196.979 32153.532 logical ext3
6 32247.694 37244.443 logical ext3
10 37244.474 38162.219 logical ext3
(parted) resize 2 0.031 25.567 [trying to enlarge /boot]
Warning: You requested to resize the partition to 0.031-25.567Mb. The closest Parted can manage is 0.031-7.844MB."
I understand that Parted is choosing options consistent with interactions between
firmware and software, but it has previously stated that
"...cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499Mb" so that there should be plenty of room
to increase the size of /boot, given that it should be placed lower than cylinder 1024.
In any case, the size of /boot may not be the reason for the boot process failing.
What would be a " correct "root=" boot option ? I have unsuccessfully tried the option
"boot: /dev/hdb5" .
What am I missing here ? I'm currently reduced to tweaking my DOS drive ...
Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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