Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Thornton
On Dec 20, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: Thanks for such a quick reply. I found the RPM databases in /var/lib/rpm. I restored these files and used yast to download and install the updates again. This time I ran the mkinitrd before the zipl and all seems fine. I always run

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01

2004-12-20 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
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Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01

2004-12-20 Thread Mark Post
E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 I restored my root file system to recover from this error. I restored everthing except /var, /tmp, /home, and /opt. SuSE told me to run mkinitrd and then a z

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01

2004-12-20 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
vice registered as (94:1) VFS: Cannot open root device "dasda1" or 5e:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 I have shutdown my linuxrtr... Linux under z/vm acting like a router Suse linux... Above is the error I

VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01

2004-12-19 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
"dasda1" or 5e:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 I have shutdown my linuxrtr... Linux under z/vm acting like a router Suse linux... Above is the error I am getting.. P

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > for i in `rpm -qa`; do rpm -V $i; done |grep missing > rpm: only one major mode may be specified Those are backticks around rpm -qa (on my keyboard, upper left, shared by ~). ~ Daniel --- This message is the proper

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-04-02 Thread Gene Walters
Hi Daniel, As you can probably tell, I'm real fluent with a lot of the Linux commands, so I really appreciate your help. I tried that command, and here is what I got: rpm: only one major mode may be specified >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/04 09:14AM >>> > It's funny, this is the one I use to cl

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-04-01 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> It's funny, this is the one I use to clone, and I just went > to another instance, found it and copied it back. > > Once tar was there, it worked great. > > I really appreciate your help Glad you are back in business now, though the missing binary IS disconcerting. You should probably take inve

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-04-01 Thread Gene Walters
You hit it right on the head. Somehow tar was gone from this instance of Linux. It's funny, this is the one I use to clone, and I just went to another instance, found it and copied it back. Once tar was there, it worked great. I really appreciate your help Thanks Gene >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> It looks like that messages is generated around line 837 in the mkinird, > before your change. Ugh, my find had wrapped back to the beginning without me realizing. Okay, on line 844 tar -C $root_dir -cf - $x 2>/dev/null | tar -C $tmp_mnt -xpf - 2>/dev/null you're getting a rc 127. It's as if

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Post, Mark K
f Of Gene Walters Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize Well, i tried upping the initial size, I quadrupled it, to no avail. It looks like that messages is generat

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Gene Walters
Well, i tried upping the initial size, I quadrupled it, to no avail. It looks like that messages is generated around line 837 in the mkinird, before your change. Here is the results of the bash on mkinitrd: bash -x mkinitrd + kernels_default=vmlinuz vmlinuz.shipped

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
>> At line at 1061 which is: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=$tmp_initrd_small bs=1k count=$img_size 2>/dev/null >> >> Can you remove the "2>/dev/null" portion of that, run mkinitrd again and >> see if you get any "No space left on device" errors? > > I did as you suggested, but I don't get any additional

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Gene Walters
I did as you suggested, but I don't get any additional messages, it's the exact same thing. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/31/04 12:04PM >>> > creating initrd "/boot/initrd" for kernel "/boot/kernel/image" > (version 2.4.21-83-default) (s390) > > dasd_mod: failed to add module "/lib/modules/2.4.21-83

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on e

2004-03-31 Thread Jim Sibley
Before the zipl, did you do a mkinitrd? The dasd drivers are in the initrd module and not in the kernel. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Ce

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> creating initrd "/boot/initrd" for kernel "/boot/kernel/image" > (version 2.4.21-83-default) (s390) > > dasd_mod: failed to add module "/lib/modules/2.4.21-83- > default/kernel/drivers/s3 > 90/block/dasd_mod.o" > initrd too small > > Run zipl now to update the IPL record! > > how do I make it big

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Gene Walters
My zipl.conf does have that statement, but I didn't run the mkinitrd. I just tried, but I get this error: using "/dev/dasda1" as root device (mounted on "/" as "ext2") Found ECKD dasd, adding das

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on e

2004-03-31 Thread Robert J Brenneman
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Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on e

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Yes, I checked the zipl.conf and then ran zipl. Does your zipl.conf have a line like "ramdisk=/boot/initrd" ? If not, you should probably add it (run mkinitrd if you haven't), and then run zipl again. > > Loading module dasd_mod dasd=$dasd ... > > insmod: dasd_mod: no module by that name found

SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on e

2004-03-31 Thread Gene Walters
pen root device "dasda1" or 5e:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 > HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A 8022CD08 > > All the modules appear to be in the right place, and the modules.

SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd - revisited)

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-94, errno = 2 > VFS: Cannot open root device "dasda1" or 5e:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 > HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A 8022CD08 &g