Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
Gidday Randy Just a stab in the dark. Have you tried removing the added memory? On one occassion that I know of, 3 individual sticks were faulty and were producing all kinds of weird problems. My friend replaced one stick while trying to track down an intermitent problem on a windoze pc, and the problem was still there. After a few more hours of troubleshooting, thought it pointed to faulty memory again and this time put the current mem into another pc and sure enough, this pc now had weird problems. Mem test was fine on boot up on both PCs. Another trip to the local hardware store and try again. Still no go in either PC. (one batch of 20 sticks, and this guy got all 3 faulty ones, for the same repair job, the others were fine) I think the moral of the story is Don't trust nuthin' unless you've tested it yourself Max Randy Sweeten said on Sunday, October 21: I searched Google and other search sites as Sridhar suggested, and found little. Other folks have had this error, but none of the message threads included the solution. I did discover the actual error is best described by the line: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted. The references to 7 and 07:07 are some kind of location descriptors, and the problem is most likely partition related. I booted from a install floppy and got into rescue mode. An fdisk -l /dev/hda gives the following: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 12032 2048224+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda2 2033 14913 12984048 f Win95 ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda5 2033 81286144232+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 8128 149136839752+ b Win95 FAT32 Does anybody know what this means, and if it is related to my problem? And maybe some hints on fixing it? - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:28:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot boot up Linux. Boot screens show: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted into Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard to get a confession out of a 9 year old!) I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was experimenting with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux. And I tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail. I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What do I do there? I don't know about this specific error, but I have found that Google and Google Groups can be great for searching for this kind of thing. Go to them and try entering something like Unable to mount root FS on 07:07. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
I searched Google and other search sites as Sridhar suggested, and found little. Other folks have had this error, but none of the message threads included the solution. I did discover the actual error is best described by the line: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted. The references to 7 and 07:07 are some kind of location descriptors, and the problem is most likely partition related. I booted from a install floppy and got into rescue mode. An fdisk -l /dev/hda gives the following: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 12032 2048224+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda2 2033 14913 12984048 f Win95 ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda5 2033 81286144232+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 8128 149136839752+ b Win95 FAT32 Does anybody know what this means, and if it is related to my problem? And maybe some hints on fixing it? - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:28:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot boot up Linux. Boot screens show: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted into Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard to get a confession out of a 9 year old!) I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was experimenting with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux. And I tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail. I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What do I do there? I don't know about this specific error, but I have found that Google and Google Groups can be great for searching for this kind of thing. Go to them and try entering something like Unable to mount root FS on 07:07. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
What did you use to partition your drive? When you installed Mandrake did you repartition from scratch or did you resize existing partitions? If the latter, then I believe that the partitions were not resized correctly. My guess would be that you can't fix this problem without repartitioning your drive. On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 18:38:31 -0700, Randy Sweeten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched Google and other search sites as Sridhar suggested, and found little. Other folks have had this error, but none of the message threads included the solution. I did discover the actual error is best described by the line: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted. The references to 7 and 07:07 are some kind of location descriptors, and the problem is most likely partition related. I booted from a install floppy and got into rescue mode. An fdisk -l /dev/hda gives the following: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 12032 2048224+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda2 2033 14913 12984048 f Win95 ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda5 2033 81286144232+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 8128 149136839752+ b Win95 FAT32 Does anybody know what this means, and if it is related to my problem? And maybe some hints on fixing it? - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:28:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot boot up Linux. Boot screens show: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted into Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard to get a confession out of a 9 year old!) I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was experimenting with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux. And I tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail. I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What do I do there? I don't know about this specific error, but I have found that Google and Google Groups can be great for searching for this kind of thing. Go to them and try entering something like Unable to mount root FS on 07:07. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers -- Thomas J. Watson, Chaiman of IBM, 1943. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
Help! I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot boot up Linux. Boot screens show: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted into Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard to get a confession out of a 9 year old!) I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was experimenting with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux. And I tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail. I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What do I do there? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:28:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot boot up Linux. Boot screens show: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted into Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard to get a confession out of a 9 year old!) I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was experimenting with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux. And I tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail. I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What do I do there? I don't know about this specific error, but I have found that Google and Google Groups can be great for searching for this kind of thing. Go to them and try entering something like Unable to mount root FS on 07:07. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
