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dasuridai n00b
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 12:49 am Post subject: kernel panic: VFS unable to mount... |
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I am posting on this after looking around quite a bit for an answer to my error. I hope that someone more familiar with gentoo could help me out.
When I boot the machine I get the error message:
Kernel Panic: unable to mount fs (3:43)
or something to that effect. Similar errors have occured and been posted many times, but I have not seen any with the 3:43 marker. I am away from my computer right now, but I can post more info if you think that would help. Mainly I am curious to see if anyone has seen 3:43 before.
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Naan Yaar Bodhisattva
Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 1:09 am Post subject: |
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The (3:43) part is just the major and minor device numbers for your root partition. So, other error messages and threads thereof would most likely be applicable.
Likely causes include:
- Not compiling in support for your root fs into your kernel
- Wrong root device specified to the kernel for boot
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dasuridai n00b
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 1:21 am Post subject: a bit more info |
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Perhaps this could help in the diagnostics:
* I have just completed the install from the walkthrough
* I have not yet had a successful boot, except cd
* I followed walkthrough to the letter except for installing gentoo to a second harddrive, with win2k on the first.
*** all entries in fstab have been changed to reflect this (/dev/hdb)
*** entries in grub also changed (hd1,0)
* I am using ext2 for /boot
* I am using XFS for /
* The error in full reads:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1 errno=2
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43
I would welcome any suggestions at this point. Thanks for the help.
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dasuridai n00b
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 1:25 am Post subject: |
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Naan Yaar wrote: | The (3:43) part is just the major and minor device numbers for your root partition. So, other error messages and threads thereof would most likely be applicable.
Likely causes include:
- Not compiling in support for your root fs into your kernel
- Wrong root device specified to the kernel for boot
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I am starting to wonder if I need to rebuild the kernel, still not sure. If I do, can I just build a kernel by booting onto the CD and going from there, or do I need to restart the install and bootstrapping |
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Naan Yaar Bodhisattva
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 2:06 am Post subject: |
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Things that you may want to check:
- enabling XFS support in your kernel
- mounting /boot before copying your bzImage file
You can use the install CD, chroot and build the kernel. No need to redo install/bootstrapping. This thread may be of help.
dasuridai wrote: | ...
I am starting to wonder if I need to rebuild the kernel, still not sure. If I do, can I just build a kernel by booting onto the CD and going from there, or do I need to restart the install and bootstrapping |
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