I think you're right it did have to do with maintenance. I booted to the install partition and re-ran zipl and now it ipl's fine.
Thanks for your help! Josh -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Posted At: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:53 AM Posted To: Marist EDU Conversation: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic Subject: Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic Was there any recent maintenance done? After maintenance (especially kernel maintenance) usually mkinitrd and zipl does need to be run before rebooting. Do you have a backup of this disk? Marist EDU wrote: > I booted into the install partition and was successfully able to mount > dasda1 and view the contents. > > Should I try to ZIPL it again? > > Josh > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Rich Smrcina > Posted At: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:34 AM > Posted To: Marist EDU > Conversation: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic > Subject: Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic > > Do yo have another SLES8 guest available? Try LINKing to the failing > guests root file system from it and see if you can mount it. > > Marist EDU wrote: >> This SLES8 guest under z/VM stopped responding and now when we log on >> the guest we get the following messages. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this? >> >> md: autorun ... >> >> md: ... autorun DONE. >> >> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 >> >> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP >> >> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 8Kbytes >> >> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192) >> >> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM >> >> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. >> >> cryptoapi: loaded >> >> RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. >> >> Freeing initrd memory: 694k freed >> >> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-94, errno = 2 >> >> VFS: Cannot open root device "dasdb1" or 5e:05 >> >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option >> >> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:05 >> >> HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 80230D08 >> >> >> >> >> Josh Konkol, CCSE CNE MCSE >> Technical Research Specialist >> .~. >> /V\ >> /( )\ >> ^^-^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > or visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> > > -- > Rich Smrcina > VM Assist, Inc. > Main: (262)392-2026 > Cell: (414)491-6001 > Ans Service: (360)715-2467 > rich.smrcina at vmassist.com > > Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org > WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (360)715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
