[3471] in RedHat Linux List
Re: "kernel panic: VFS unable to mount..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Jennison)
Fri Nov 8 17:26:00 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:09:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Richard Jennison <jennison@netcom.com>
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UPDATE TO MY LAST POST ON THIS SUBJECT
After reading the answer to this post in the rh-list group (Thank
you Brian Bothwell) and some of the kernel help txt lists, I rpm -e and rpm
-U the kernel source file and started all over again. This was necessary
among other reasons because I discovered that I had modularized ext2,
my root filesystem, in error.
I once again chose to modularize everything I could except the ext2
filesystem. Here are the specific commands used:
rpm -e kernel-source-2.0.18-6
rpm -U kernel-source* (from archived source file)
cd /usr/include
rm -rf asm linux scsi
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
cd /usr/src/linux/
make mrproper
make config
make dep (no errors observed)
make clean
make zImage ( " " " )
make zdisk (no boot disk afterwards. Have to be formatted first?)
make zlilo (don't know just what happened. Probably should have
omitted)
make modules (no errors observed-skipped over previously installed
modules)
make modules_install
I then copied the new zImage to /boot as vmlinuz and ran /sbin/lilo
with the lilo.config file in my last post.
Now when booting I get the following 3 variations of an unsuccessful
kernel rebuild:
kernel loading messages
snip
Partition check
hda started kswapd V.1.4.2.2
hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
1. label l (new kernel modularized 2.0.18-6)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem read-only)
[stops loading at this point]
2. label o (original kernel monolithic 2.0.18-5)
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:03
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03
[stops loading at this point]
3. redhat boot disk LILO linux root=/dev/hdb1
VFS: Cannot open root device 00:de
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:de
[stops loading at this point]
So ,as you can see, I have now managed to disable my boot disk as
well and don't know how to get back into the system to fix it.
Thanks Rick
jennison@netcom.com
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