Kernel Panic - Unable to mount root fs on hda3

[sneak147]

Im having the above problem and Im sure its related to some hardware modules that I have not included in my kernel but just cant seem to find what they are...

Below are some details of the machine

lspci:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 7a)

lsmod - booting from a gentoo live CD
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Module Size Used by Not tainted
eepro100 18324 1
mii 2128 0 [eepro100]
floppy 47484 0 (autoclean)
serial 48932 0 (autoclean)
isa-pnp 27856 0 (autoclean) [serial]
usb-storage 60672 0 (unused)
hid 19620 0 (unused)
uhci 22908 0 (unused)
usbcore 56076 1 [usb-storage hid uhci]

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Linux version 2.4.24-xfs-r3 (root@amd64) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7)) #1 Sun Feb 29 01:17:55 CET 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003ffe400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ffe400 - 0000000003fffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003fffc00 - 0000000004000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0400 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
63MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 16382
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 12286 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f7040
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x00000001 PTL 0x01000000) @ 0x03ffe567
ACPI: FADT (v001 FSC D1131/15 0x00000001 0x000f4240) @ 0x03ffe58f
ACPI: DSDT (v001 FSC D1131/15 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=zisofs loop=/zisofs cdroot vga=0x317 splash=silent BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo options cdcache
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 348.931 MHz processor.
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Mon Dec 22 16:18:53 EST 2003 : initialized
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 696.32 BogoMIPS
Memory: 59312k/65528k available (2220k kernel code, 5828k reserved, 307k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Proc Config support by ptb@it.uc3m.es
proc config counted 6425 bytes in names
proc config counted 702 bytes in value handles
initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 )
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9c4, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
SGI XFS snapshot-2.4.23-2003-12-01_00:33_UTC with ACLs, realtime, tracing, debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfb000000, mapped to 0xc49d9000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:479f
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture..... silenjpeg size 21830 bytes, found (1024x768, 16923 bytes, v3).
Got silent jpeg.
Got silent jpeg.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 122x40
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Equalizer1996: $Revision: 1.2.1 $ $Date: 1996/09/22 13:52:00 $ Simon Janes (simon@ncm.com)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST320014A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0179980, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: OEM CD-ROM F522E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1658k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xf800, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-0 with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.24-xfs-r3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
eth0: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:D0:B7:3C:8A:9B, IRQ 10.
Board assembly 721383-008, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Looking for splash picture.... found (1024x768, 16923 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 0 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (1024x768, 16923 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 1 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (1024x768, 16923 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 2 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (1024x768, 16923 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 3 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (1024x768, 16923 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 4 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (1024x768, 16923 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 5 changed to on
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

[flyinspirit001]

excuse me but what is the error that you receive?also remember that lsmod from gentoocd, if u don't chrooted before gives u the list of modules autoinstalled by Gentoo only for installation, not what u've choosed for your kernel..

bye
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[Little Nemo]

Things to check:

- IDE disk driver
- driver for your IDE controller
- driver for your file system
- partition support (if you selected advanced partition selection, you must include MS-DOS partition support)

[sneak147]

Advanced partition selection was the problem..

Thanks,

Ilo Lorusso.

[Little Nemo]

[/bin/bash]

OK, I've been trying to get a 2.6 kernel to boot for months now. I started a thread here.

I took the advice from this thread and recompiled with advanced partition selection and MS-DOS as suggested and it didn't work. Same old "VFS: unable to mount root fs"

So I tried it with and without...what gives?
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[Bombs14]

I had the same problem. I was using kernel 2.6.7 (gentoo-dev-sources)

I upgraded to gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-r3, and the problem no longer appears.