[TriLUG] Help. Kenel Panic

[Marty Ferguson]

Nick

What grub told you and what it means.

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Kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2
	[linux-bzimage, setup=0x1400, size-0x139a67]
initrd(hd0,0)/initrd
error 15: file not found
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Grub is looking for your kernel, vmlinuz, on the 1st partition of
your 1st hard drive, which for us is /dev/hda1 and is probably
your /boot partition.

Grub thinks that your / filesystem is on /dev/hdc2
Grub is trying to load the initial ramdisk initrd from /boot,
in the same directory as your kernel vmlinuz.
Grub tells you it can't find initrd, which   it also expects
to find in /boot.
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grub> Kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2
grub> boot

So then interactively you tell grub to go ahead and boot.
linux boots, but without file system support for the file system
where your initrd is located, it cannot boot.  Grub has claimed that
initrd is missing.  When you force linux to boot, and linux tries
to mount a filesystem for which support is contained in a module
(rather than compiled into the kernel), then linux can't continue.

THis begs the two questions
1) Why is initrd missing ??
2) Do you have root on a reiserfs on /dev/hdc2 ??

Hope this helps
Marty

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Hope this helps,
Marty


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Nick
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:56 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] Help. Kenel Panic


I updated my SuSE box and now I cannot boot it. Unfortunately this box
housed
my email server so I will not be able to see andwers to this until I have
the
mail forwarded. My temp addy is nickgoldwater_auh2o~at~yahoo.com

the message I receive is:

Kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2
	[linux-bzimage, setup=0x1400, size-0x139a67]
initrd(hd0,0)/initrd
error 15: file not found

Ok, so then I start messing around with grub.

grub> Kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2
grub> boot

then my box starts to boot but then I receive:
Kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root FS on 16:02


I have googled quite a bit but have not found (or understood) an answer to
this. Any help would be appreciated.


Nick

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