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
Did you run mkinitrd before you did the zipl ? Installing a new kernel also installs new drivers, and you have to make a new initrd to hold those drivers at IPL time since SuSE does not compile the dasd drivers into the kernel. ( Neither does RedHat - for that matter ) Jay Brenneman Linux Test a

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
Yes, I checked the zipl.conf and then ran zipl. Yes the Kernel reports the new version which is: Linux version 2.4.21-83-default I'm stumped. Thanks Gene >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/31/04 08:17AM >>> > I just put on SuSE SP3. When I IPL'd, it gives me these messages: > > Loading module dasd_mod d

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
> I just put on SuSE SP3. When I IPL'd, it gives me these messages: > > Loading module dasd_mod dasd=$dasd ... > insmod: dasd_mod: no module by that name found > Loading module dasd_eckd_mod ... > insmod: dasd_eckd_mod: no module by that name found > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k b