root filesystem

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Janina. Actually, I'm running Debian potato. Actually, the exact error is: Kernel panic: vfs: Unable to mount root filesystem on 0302. I'm not sure quite what 0302 refers to, I might just try playing with system.map some more trying different combinations. I used fdisk to partition the disk to ext2, and it boots fine with the old kernel. I just want to make sure there's nothing that I'm missing. And if you want, just let me know if you want me to post system.map to the list. Thanks again!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: root filesystem


> Hi, Igor:
> 
> Are you using Red Hat? If you first configured and partitioned your system 
> with a recent Red Hat you are probably using ext3 file system. This is 
> good, but I don't know if it's supported in 2.4.17 by default.
> 
> Someone here will tell us, I'm sure.
> 
> I offer this up, because I've run into this a few times. 
> 
> PS: You can always move down to ext2fs using tune2fs -- read the man page 
> for tune2fs to learn its commands -- but that would be too bad, because 
> ext3 seems pretty helpful. If this is the issue, there's probably a patch 
> for 2.4.17, though that will mean recompiling.
>  On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Igor 
> Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi listers. I built a 2.4.17 kernel because this is what I happen to have, and rebooted the machine. It came up talking and it probed hardware successfully. However, it can't mount the root filesystem and it terminates with a kernel panic: fs: Unable to mount root filesystem. I checked system.map to make sure it said root=/dev/hda2 because this is my root partition, and it is also in lilo.conf as root=/dev/hda2. Here's basiclly what it looks like:
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
> > label=Kernel1
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/hda2
> > alias=1
> > 
> > It also says root=/dev/hda2 closer to the top of the lilo.conf. What could I be missing? I alias back to the kernel with 2, and it boots fine. Any help would be great! Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Igor
> > 
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