-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 June 2004 16:39, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:21:59PM +0200, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > > [...] > > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > > Press L1-A to return to the boot prom > > Curses! > > I'm back to having no idea... Also no idea why it worked for that one > guy. Possibly it is a kernel bug only on some machines? That's even > more insidious. Right now, the situation makes no sense at all, even > less than it did before... > > A summary: > > * SILO 1.3.2 does not work with more machines than 1.4.5 breaks > * rootfstype=ext2 fixed it for one person, indicating corruption > of the initrd by the FS checks > * Ben's kernel patch did not help. > > so no rhyme or reason wrt fixes.
Today I just gave it a try with root=/dev/hda1 instead of root=/dev/rd/0. This gave me the following output (thank you, minicom...): ********************************************************************* [ ENTER - Boot install ] [ Type "rescue" - Boot into rescue mode ] boot: linux cdrom devfs=mount rw ramdisk_size=8192 rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/hda1 Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.4.26 Loading initial ramdisk (1865444 bytes at 0x0lx phys, 0x10C00000 virt)... / Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.15.2 1998/11/10 10:35 Linux version 2.4.26-sparc64 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040404 ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 08:00:20:a5:0d:b4 initrd extends beyond end of memory (0x0000000020dc76e4 > 0x000000001ff14000) disabling initrd On node 0 totalpages: 32118 zone(0): 32650 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Found CPU 0 (node=f006d088,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: cdrom devfs=mount rw ramdisk_size=8192 rootfstype=ext2 cdrom dev1 Calibrating delay loop... 665.19 BogoMIPS Memory: 253840k available (2544k kernel code, 592k data, 184k init) [fffff80000000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. PCI: Found SABRE, main regs at 000001fe00000000, wsync at 000001fe00001c20 SABRE: Shared PCI config space at 000001fe01000000 SABRE: DVMA at c0000000 [20000000] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 3] slot[ 0] map[1] to INO[11] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 3] slot[ 4] map[1] to INO[10] PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 1] map[0] to INO[21] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 2] map[0] to INO[0f] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 3] map[0] to INO[20] PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz ebus0: [auxio] [power] [SUNW,pll] [se] [su] [su] [ecpp] [fdthree] [eeprom] [flashprom] PCIO serial driver version 1.54 su(mouse) at 0x1fff13062f8 (irq = 4,7ea) is a 16550A Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 su(kbd) at 0x1fff13083f8 (irq = 9,7e9) is a 16550A keyboard: not present SAB82532 serial driver version 1.65 ttyS00 at 0x1fff1400000 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2 ttyS01 at 0x1fff1400040 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2 Console: ttyS0 (SAB82532) power: Control reg at 000001fff1724000 ... powerd running. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured rtc_init: no PC rtc found Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) sunhme.c:v2.01 26/Mar/2002 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) eth0: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:a5:0d:b4 eth1: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:a5:0d:b4 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx CMD646: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:03.0 CMD646: chipset revision 3 CMD646: chipset revision 0x03, MultiWord DMA Force Limited CMD646: 100% native mode on irq 4,7e0 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00020-0x1fe02c00027, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00028-0x1fe02c0002f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: ST39140A, ATA DISK drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hdc: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1fe02c00000-0x1fe02c00007,0x1fe02c0000a on irq 4,7e0 ide1 at 0x1fe02c00010-0x1fe02c00017,0x1fe02c0001a on irq 4,7e0 (shared with ide0) hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 17803440 sectors (9115 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=17662/16/63, (U)DMA Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 01:55:34 Apr 24 2004 host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). .version 2.78 booting Running /etc/init.d/boot Mounting /proc device sys32_ioctl(sho) done done Mounting /dev/ptsblogd: console=/dev/console, stdin=/dev/console, must differ, boot ld Run file system check on root for LVM activation done Remounting root file system (/) read/write for vgscan... Scanning for LVM volume groups... modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-sparc64/modules.) vgscan -- LVM driver/module not loaded? Activating LVM volume groups... modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-sparc64/modules.) modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-sparc64/modules.) vgchange -- LVM driver/module not loaded? Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab... failed Checking file systems... fsck 1.24a (02-Sep-2001) fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda1 (null): The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> failed fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write do: bash# mount -n -o remount,rw / Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this maintanance mode. shutdown or reboot will not work. Give root password to login: ********************************************************************* Does this info help in any way? - -- Frederik Dannemare | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dannemare.net GnuPG key: search for 'dannemare' on http://pgpkeys.mit.edu Key fingerprint: BB7B 078A 0DBF 7663 180A F84A 2D25 FAD5 9C4E B5A8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxxWWLSX61ZxOtagRAnTkAJwLKI2tdM2qQ3KBagGujRIk6gid1gCgpbgv DjKO8olkLlxLnzsUs/DCiw4= =bTFw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----