[newbie] kernel panic on PPC 7600/120

2004-03-23 Thread info
Hi All, I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.1 for Apple PPC on a PPC 7600 604 12 mhz 48mb 2gb the installation keeps ending with a kernel panic: mesh: double mda start I'm doing a text install from CD The installer doesn't recognize the CD by itself, I need to choose a driver which is called

[newbie] Kernel Panic:??

2003-11-07 Thread Bulloved
Hello from the land of windows. :~(( I'm running Mandrake 8.2. Last Wednesday we had a momentary power failure. When I rebooted my computer following the power failure it hung on the Linux boot. I have spent the last two days trying to solve the problem on my own with no luck, unfortunately. Here

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??

2003-11-07 Thread Paul
I am afraid that the partition table on your disk is fried, or the partitions have taken a terrible beating. The system cannot locate the proper partition to load the initial files from. I hope you have a decent backup of your /home data, because this sounds like format and reinstall to me. But

RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??

2003-11-07 Thread brian
Would it be possible to use a boot disk to access the info on the disk and edit or replace conf files? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??

2003-11-07 Thread Paul
You may attempt that to mount the partitions you want to backup, but with things sounding like they do now, editting or replacing config files will do little to no good. Something basic on the disk appears to be damaged, and that is not fixable by a config file. Paul On 11/07/2003 09:11 PM,

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??

2003-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 Nov 2003 8:11 pm, brian wrote: Would it be possible to use a boot disk to access the info on the disk and edit or replace conf files? Yes. If you boot from the Install Cd#1 and at the first screen hit the button 'For more options' then type 'rescue' at the prompt. It will boot in

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??

2003-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Bulloved wrote: mounting root file system mount error 6 mounting ext 3 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. After the kernel is started it attempts to mount a file system on the root device hard-coded into the kernel

[newbie] Kernel panic : No init found

2003-03-05 Thread Sendak, John
At boot-up I get the following message :- Kenel panic : No init found Try passing init = option to kernel after which nothing happens except that the caps lock and scroll lock keep flashing. I arrived at this situation after attempting to change users when the machine seemed to have become

Re: [newbie] kernel panic during install when formatting swap partitionon Power Mac 8600

2003-01-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:20, Daniel Segel wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2/PPC on a Powermac 8600/300 with 2x4GB SCSI hard drives and 192MB RAM in it. I've tried installing onto both drives, but I get the same error either way. The problem I'm having is that I

Re: [newbie] kernel panic during install when formattingswap partition on Power Mac 8600

2003-01-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:49, John Richard Smith wrote: I've not been following this thread until now so forgive me if I'm off here. Now I cannot offer an explanation for your problem, but one possible workaround might be to merely create that /swap partition but leave it unformatted and

[newbie] kernel panic during install when formatting swap partition on PowerMac 8600

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Segel
I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2/PPC on a Powermac 8600/300 with 2x4GB SCSI hard drives and 192MB RAM in it. I've tried installing onto both drives, but I get the same error either way. The problem I'm having is that I get a kernel panic when the installer gets to the point of trying to

RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-10-04 Thread ravi r
Septiembre de 2002 05:06 p.m. Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros

RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-09-24 Thread gerCO
: Lunes, 23 de Septiembre de 2002 05:06 p.m. Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros

[newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-09-23 Thread ravi r
Hi, I am trying to install Mandrake8.2 on my new Athlon(XP1800+) box from the installation CDs (downloaded from one of the mirrors). The installer interface comes up and when i choose to install, it fails and issue a kernel panic. The following are the first few error msgs: vesafb:frame

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-09-23 Thread et
do you have shared video memory with an onboard video card? if so you will need to hit f1 instead of enter when first prompted to hit enter to install or upgrade. you will then need to tell the installer how much memory it can use without effecting the video memory, like this (without the

RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-09-23 Thread Cory
: ravi r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon File: message.footer Hi, I am trying to install Mandrake8.2 on my new Athlon(XP1800+) box from the installation CDs

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic Errors

2002-09-19 Thread Derek Jennings
Does your motherboard use shared video memory? If so this link may help http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=3994highlight=unable+mount+root derek On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 5:12 am, Robert W. Dempsey wrote: Hello - I am unable to resolve this issue and time is of the essence!

[newbie] Kernel Panic Errors

2002-09-18 Thread Robert W. Dempsey
Hello - I am unable to resolve this issue and time is of the essence! Hardware - 1, Adaptec 2110S RAID Controller Revision 380E 3, Fujitsu MAN3184MP Ultra 160 10K RPM SCSI Drives 1, Intel PIII 933 MHz 2, 256MB Sticks Generic PC133 SDRAM Configuration - RAID

[newbie] Kernel Panic

2002-08-02 Thread N E N I S T E R
Hello there...I'm having a real problem hereMy linux system went down, I tried to telnet it, and nothing happens, so I'd put myself on console and nothing happends to, the screen was all black, so I'd reset manually the machine, and when it boot on, on the screen was the next alerts:

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic

2002-08-02 Thread civileme
N E N I S T E R wrote: Hello there...I'm having a real problem hereMy linux system went down, I tried to telnet it, and nothing happens, so I'd put myself on console and nothing happends to, the screen was all black, so I'd reset manually the machine, and when it boot on, on the screen

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-25 Thread et
do you have a mem=184 as part of the append statement in your lilo.conf (assuming you are booting w/lilo)? On Monday 24 June 2002 10:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-25 Thread Pastor-KC1DI
this is of help. Dave - Original Message - From: ben harker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MandrakeNewbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3

[newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread ben harker
hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread ben harker
im using Mandrake 8.0 On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 10:49:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128

[newbie] kernel panic - why?

2002-04-28 Thread hjfmc
Hi newbies non-newbies (may your tribe increase) Well, this is the second time (original install November 2001 - panic Jan 2001), So ... It may have been 'cos the 12yo exceeded his winME partition size (around 10goig), or the (apparently) faulty power source ... anyway, the hd was unable to

Re: [newbie] kernel panic - why?

2002-04-28 Thread Brian Parish
Sounds like you have disk problems again. Try booting from the install CD, press F1 and type RESCUE. It will allow you to mount your files systems under /mnt. First question then is: can you mount them? If so, try fsck. That should at least give you more data to come back to the list. HTH

[newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

2002-04-14 Thread Hong Sun
Hi, All: I am pretty new with linux. Actually, this is my first time to install the Mandrake linux 8.1 (2 CD disks) to a desktop. The installation was very smooth. But after the installation and reboot, nothing happened and the screen was black! After re-login with the failsafe mode, the

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

2002-04-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 14 April 2002 2:09 pm, Hong Sun wrote: Hi, All: I am pretty new with linux. Actually, this is my first time to install the Mandrake linux 8.1 (2 CD disks) to a desktop. The installation was very smooth. But after the installation and reboot, nothing happened and the screen was

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

2002-04-14 Thread Hanan Shargi
I had the same problem with Mandrake 8.2 after install went all smooth, I rebooted and the same thing happened: : : kernel panic attemp to kill init! : and I had to shut down the system manually. I was installing it on a system with the following specs: Intel P4 1.6 GHz mainboard: ATX / XP4

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

2002-04-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Try this:- At the lilo splash screen ,hit Esc tab, and at the boot screen, type linux(or whatever it is listed as) nobiospnp enter When on desktop go to /etc/lilo.conf and edit the append=line by additng nobiospnp within the already established qyotes. John On Sunday 14 April 2002 14:09,

[newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init

2001-12-29 Thread Joe Sotham
This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong... I am upgrading a system to an AMD 1700+/ MSI K7266A Pro2 board, 256MB PC2100 RAM, duel booting Linux 8.1/Windows ME. I'm using the remaining equipment from my old system. The windows ME side works fine. I have freshly installed Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init

2001-12-29 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:45:36 GMT Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong... I am upgrading a system to an AMD 1700+/ MSI K7266A Pro2 board, 256MB PC2100 RAM, duel booting Linux 8.1/Windows ME. I'm using the remaining equipment from my old

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init - Fixed

2001-12-29 Thread joe
adding the parameter nobiospnp to the append line in lilo.conf fixed the problem as Franz pointed out. Thanks, Franz! Joe On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:36, you wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:45:36 GMT Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong...

[newbie] Kernel panic

2001-11-03 Thread Warren Post
My newly installed LM8.0 now halts during bootup with the message Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05. I must have done something to cause this, but beats me what. Booting with the floppy produces the same results. Booting into Windows 95 (this is a dual boot machine) now shows

[newbie] kernel panic

2001-09-04 Thread Mohammed Arafa
what does 1. kernel panic: trying to kill init and 2. error referencing 00 mean? i got that and my linux refuses to boot nor even install any more sigh ..help? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2001-09-04 Thread Mohammed Arafa
? and this is from the rescue option of the CD .. guess this means i cant rescue or do anything with this hard disk huh? - Original Message - From: Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic what does

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2001-09-04 Thread amit !!
it amit - Original Message - From: Mohammed Arafa To: Mandrake Newbie Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:34 PM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic what does1. kernel panic: trying to kill initand2. error referencing 00mean?i got that and my linux refuses to boot nor

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS

2001-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Have you tried booting with the default 2.4.3 Mandrake kernel? I was using the Freq kernel for a while, but I found it too buggy and went back to the default one. On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:02, Terry Smith wrote: Hi gang, I've got a fairly serious problem with my linux box (dual boot with

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS

2001-08-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:00 pm, Terry Smith wrote: By way of a post-mortem, the failure may have been from the Reiser filesystem or perhaps the kernel. Has anyone had difficulties like fs crashes with Reiser or 2.4.5, or both in combination? No problems here. Half of 13.6g hda is

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS

2001-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:00, Terry Smith wrote: Thanks Allen, worked like a charm! In my panic I had forgotten the 'rescue' option on the CD. BTW, after using reiserfsck to rebuild my superblocks and to clean up the reiser partitions the system seems much snappier. Thanks. Those of us using

[newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS

2001-07-31 Thread Terry Smith
Hi gang, I've got a fairly serious problem with my linux box (dual boot with Win98). I left my machine at work running overnight. When I came in this morning it had died and when I attempted to reboot I've got a 'kernel panic' message driven by an inability to mount the root fs (reiser). This

[newbie] Kernel panic when installing Mandrake 8.0 on a Digital with RAID Mylex Controller

2001-07-17 Thread Orazio . Sgalbiero
Hi, I have the following error at boot time after installation : Kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-48, errno = 2 VFS:Cannot open root device 3001 or 30:01 Kernel panic:VF:Unable to mount root fs on 30:01 The server is a Digital ZX Prioris with a SCSI Mylex Controller. (2

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic,please help

2001-04-28 Thread Todd Lyons
Vishal Abrol wrote: There are no other operating system installed,i believe hard disk has SCSI controller and hard drive is promise ultra66 Try using the boot images provided on the cdrom instead of letting the cdrom boot directly. The images I suggest you try are in images/alternatives/.

[newbie] Kernel panic on booting a compiled 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have finally managed to compile a 2.4.1 kernel for myself. Unfortunately, whenever I try to boot with it the kernel will panic, giving the error "kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:01". What could this be and how may I fix it? I have no problems booting with stock standard

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic on booting a compiled 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-20 Thread Salane King
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 07:44 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have finally managed to compile a 2.4.1 kernel for myself. Unfortunately, whenever I try to boot with it the kernel will panic, giving the error "kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:01". What could this be and how

[newbie] kernel panic - swapper

2001-02-01 Thread donald hinds
I can boot graphically, but NSB or Failsafe it gets to something about the SWAPPER end then Aieee kernel Panic ... in sync swapper not syncing and the computer totally locks up. Any help out there? Don Don Hinds - photo, motorcycle, misc. http://www.wyzards.com

[newbie] Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root ??

2001-01-23 Thread DC Trader
I installed Linux for windows. And Everything went perfect until I went to boot up for the first time. I get this error: Request_module [block-major-71] root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 I

[newbie] Kernel panic: No init found

2001-01-11 Thread Miodrag Popovic
A month ago I have successfully installed LM 7.2 on my Pentium Celeron 366 MHz having 20 GB disc. I have two Win partitions: C (hda1 - 6 GB) and D (hda5 - 8.5 GB), and three Linux partitions: / (hda6 - 4.5 GB), /boot (hda7 - 16 MB) and swap (hda8 - 125 MB). LILO was chosen for boot and installed

Re: [newbie] kernel Panic

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 18 December 2000 01:55 pm, Vikram Haravu wrote: I recently installed LM 7.1 on my PC which already had Win98. I was using Grub as the bootloader setup to load Linux as default. Since the Linux install I have re-installed Win98 on my PC. Now I cannot use Linux. So I used the Linux

[newbie] kernel Panic

2000-12-18 Thread Vikram Haravu
Hello, my customer ID number is : LM71DH1-30868587 I have the following problem. I will appreciate it if you can help. I recently installed LM 7.1 on my PC which already had Win98. I was using Grub as the bootloader setup to load Linux as default. Since the Linux install I have re-installed

[newbie] Kernel panic

2000-11-04 Thread Luis Rodriguez
I recently reinstalled windows and it erased my master boot record (mbr) I have tried to boot linux through a floppy disc and I received this error message: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 What can I do to boot linux? Please help me I have very important files in my

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic

2000-11-04 Thread Steve Maytum
will probably have to reinstall. Others may give you a better idea if you wait for all replies. Good Luck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Luis Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 3:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel panic I

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2000-10-30 Thread An0nonmous
This is usually a prob with your RAM settings on the windows side You may have set them wrong 8)

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2000-10-30 Thread Josef Dajczgewand
Hallo I have this same problem ... - Original Message - From: Inge Mauren To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic hi everybody :) I have just installed mandrake 7.0 lnx4win everything seems to be working

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2000-10-30 Thread L. H. LOO
FYI, Presently I use Win95B, Win95C, and Win98 at work, at home I have Win95B. To learn how to use Linux, I install Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and RedHat 6.0 each on separate 10 Gb harddisks in a removable tray (will be doing same for SuSe 6.3 on 4 Gb soon) - so that - Win and Linux do not 'see' each

[newbie] kernel panic

2000-08-30 Thread SPRING SUMMER
LAPTOP Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDT -400MHz K6-2 3D Now -4.3GB HDD -128MB SDRAM -24X CD-ROM -12.1" TFT(800x600) Active Matrix/Dual Scan -V.90/K56flex Modem I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on my laptop but I am unable to use because of an error that reads: Auto run done... VFS: cannot open

[newbie] Kernel Panic

2000-06-24 Thread Curtis W. Moore
I just installed mandrake 7.1. Compiled a new kernel and now I get an error message on boot, Kernel Panic: No init found. Any ideas

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic

2000-06-24 Thread Sevatio Octavio
] Kernel Panic I just installed mandrake 7.1. Compiled a new kernel and now I get an error message on boot, Kernel Panic: No init found. Any ideas

[newbie] kernel panic

2000-01-12 Thread Roberto Pedrozo
I need to reinstall my linux mandrake but hen i start the autoboot in my cd i receve one message saying kernel panic and after the instalation stop. Someone can help me with this problem . i tryed to use my fdisk but i canĀ“t erase the linux partition

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2000-01-12 Thread Ricky
If you have a copy of your FAT, the one after made the linux partition, copy it and then make again the partition. - Original Message - From: Roberto Pedrozo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:12 AM Subject: [newbie] kernel panic I need

[newbie] Kernel panic during first install

1999-12-20 Thread MORELON Nhan-Duc 168308
Hello everybody, I'm trying to install Mandrake 6.1 on a Dual P400 workstation with a 6 Go SCSI drive and Windows NT already installed on a FAT partition. But at the begining of the install process, i have the following error : VFS : Cannot open root device 08:21 kernel panic : VFS : Unable to

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic

1999-05-24 Thread Hidong Kim
root wrote: Installed kernel-2.2.9 from tar.gz, on reboot I get message "VFS: cannot open root device 03:01" "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01" Kernel-2.0.36 boosts on 03:00 Any help would be help THANKS Hi, Do you have any bootable kernels? If so, boot with a good

[newbie] Kernel panic

1999-05-22 Thread root
Installed kernel-2.2.9 from tar.gz, on reboot I get message "VFS: cannot open root device 03:01" "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01" Kernel-2.0.36 boosts on 03:00 Any help would be help THANKS