Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-07 Thread dman
(I'll answer this only once, even though there are two parallel threads) On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:40:20PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:22:47 -0500, dman wrote: | | >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | > | >| I'm gonna feel pretty stupid about t

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:22:47 -0500, dman wrote: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >| I'm gonna feel pretty stupid about this, I think. Like Aaron, I could >| get a rescue disk to work. No amount of fiddling with "root=" or >| "append=root=" in either lilo.conf or

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | I'm gonna feel pretty stupid about this, I think. Like Aaron, I could | get a rescue disk to work. No amount of fiddling with "root=" or | "append=root=" in either lilo.conf or at boot would get 2.4 up and | running. Did you speci

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:32:49 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:44:58AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: >> >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root f

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:44:58AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >Hi, > >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted > >> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >Hi, >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: >> I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro >... >So you upgraded kernel. > >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted >> VFS: Cannot open roo

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro ... So you upgraded kernel. > Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 ... So you can not mount root. Is root

mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-03 Thread Aaron Brashears
I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro kernel. On bootup, I get the following message: Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:0