Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device parameter is not correct.. The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your system needs to mount the root device.. / is a reiserfs partion (/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) So how can I force Linux to load the reiserfs module during the booting? Or which root device parameters could be wrong (could you look up my fstab and lilo.conf in my original message)? "force" is not the correct wording :-).. you need to have an initrd for that. the installer should have done it for you.. best is to do a "man mkinitrd" from a valid system, and build an initrd for your machine. then boot the rescue, copy the initrd on relevant place, possibly update your bootmanager config file. Tried to build a new initial ramdisk with SCSI and Reiserfs support. Now it seems obvious that the problem is that the reiserfs module isn't "build" correctly into the ramdisk. When I built the ramdisk with "mkinitrd -v " I saw that scsi_mod.o, sd_mod.o, aic7xxx.o and reiserfs.o were needed and being built into the ramdisk. Everything seemed to work fine except for reiserfs. There I got following messages: Loading module reiserfs with options tar: ./lib/reiserfs.o: Wrote only 2048 of 10240 bytes tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors (besides I tried "mkinitrd . -with=reiserfs" as well: same error!) How to solve this problem? (I tried to boot with the new ramdisk. As expected: same error as with the previous one.) Alex Riechert
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
"Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Everything seemed to work fine except for reiserfs. There I got following messages: Loading module reiserfs with options tar: ./lib/reiserfs.o: Wrote only 2048 of 10240 bytes tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors (besides I tried "mkinitrd . -with=reiserfs" as well: same error!) How to solve this problem? Can you verify that your reiserfs module is okay? Try to uncompress it and insmod it.. Also, issue a "df" and "df -i" right after failure of mkinitrd so we can see if it's not a problem with not enough diskspace. (I tried to boot with the new ramdisk. As expected: same error as with the previous one.) Please copy for me as much debug info as possible... -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
"Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] doesn't work, neither by booting from the floppy drive (the Mandrake boot floppy disk doesn't work at all), nor from the harddisk, sending following error message: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 Anyone out there knowing how to solve this problem? Can you try to see if required modules are correctly loaded just before this to happen? Watch for messages beginning with "Loading module" and verify that your scsi adapter, sd_mod and reiserfs and correctly loaded.. Well, no "Loading module" message at all! What do I have to do to load these modules? 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device parameter is not correct.. The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your system needs to mount the root device.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] doesn't work, neither by booting from the floppy drive (the Mandrake boot floppy disk doesn't work at all), nor from the harddisk, sending following error message: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 Anyone out there knowing how to solve this problem? Can you try to see if required modules are correctly loaded just before this to happen? Watch for messages beginning with "Loading module" and verify that your scsi adapter, sd_mod and reiserfs and correctly loaded.. Well, no "Loading module" message at all! What do I have to do to load these modules? 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device parameter is not correct.. The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your system needs to mount the root device.. / is a reiserfs partion (/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) So how can I force Linux to load the reiserfs module during the booting? Or which root device parameters could be wrong (could you look up my fstab and lilo.conf in my original message)? Thanks, Alex
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
"Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device parameter is not correct.. The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your system needs to mount the root device.. / is a reiserfs partion (/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) So how can I force Linux to load the reiserfs module during the booting? Or which root device parameters could be wrong (could you look up my fstab and lilo.conf in my original message)? "force" is not the correct wording :-).. you need to have an initrd for that. the installer should have done it for you.. best is to do a "man mkinitrd" from a valid system, and build an initrd for your machine. then boot the rescue, copy the initrd on relevant place, possibly update your bootmanager config file. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device parameter is not correct.. The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your system needs to mount the root device.. / is a reiserfs partion (/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) So how can I force Linux to load the reiserfs module during the booting? Or which root device parameters could be wrong (could you look up my fstab and lilo.conf in my original message)? "force" is not the correct wording :-).. you need to have an initrd for that. the installer should have done it for you.. best is to do a "man mkinitrd" from a valid system, and build an initrd for your machine. then boot the rescue, copy the initrd on relevant place, possibly update your bootmanager config file. OK! I'll try it tonight! I'm confident that it will work. Thanks vachement beaucoup for the explanations! Alex
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
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Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] doesn't work, neither by booting from the floppy drive (the Mandrake boot floppy disk doesn't work at all), nor from the harddisk, sending following error message: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 Anyone out there knowing how to solve this problem? Can you try to see if required modules are correctly loaded just before this to happen? Watch for messages beginning with "Loading module" and verify that your scsi adapter, sd_mod and reiserfs and correctly loaded.. Well, no "Loading module" message at all! What do I have to do to load these modules? Thanks, Alex Riechert
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
"Alex Riechert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] doesn't work, neither by booting from the floppy drive (the Mandrake boot floppy disk doesn't work at all), nor from the harddisk, sending following error message: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 Anyone out there knowing how to solve this problem? Can you try to see if required modules are correctly loaded just before this to happen? Watch for messages beginning with "Loading module" and verify that your scsi adapter, sd_mod and reiserfs and correctly loaded.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
