Alex,
Thanks a lot for your answers.
I actually had done that before, but it didn't go as well as that.
It is now three days I am trying to recover that machine, and I haven't made
any progress.
When I boot with the rescue CD, I can access and mount all the partitions,
but if I try to boot from the HD, it can't mount the root. I checked
everything with reiserfsck (which is not on the rescue), but didn't get any
error message.
Depending on the mkinitrd version, I got different error messages, but one
was a bit more explicit about modprobe not finding some modules.
Since I am obviously not the only one having this problem, I now feel there
is definitely something broken (kernel or mkinitrd?). Also, grub often tells
me that the initrd.img is corrupted or contains bad data. Lilo tells me
there is a hole in the map.
Eventually, I even tried an 'upgrade' from the released 7.1, but it did not
change anything. I also managed to nearly boot from a bootdisk but it ends
not being able to find some modules or libraries.
Is there anyone with reiserfs still able to boot her/his machine? The other
machine I have with e2fs works just fine.
Any idea? After 3 days, I am getting dry, so I am going for a (not so free)
beer.
Thanks again,
=-=
kk1
>From: Alex Boag-Munroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [Cooker] Kernel panic w/ 2.2.16-10mdk
>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:21:51 +0100
>
>I had this.
>
>What you have to do:
>
>Compile the kernel as normal.
>
>Once compiled, BEFORE the reboot, do the following:
>
>mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-10mdk.img 2.2.16-10mdk --preload reiserfs
>
>Then go to /boot/grub and edit the menu.lst file and change the linux-up or
>linux so that it takes the image from the new image file. (grub does not
>use symlinks)
>
>Then reboot. All should be well.
>
>Alex
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Quel Qun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 27 June 2000 8:39
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Cooker] Kernel panic w/ 2.2.16-10mdk
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I don't know what happened. I installed the 2.2.16-10mdk on my machine.
>Since it uses grub and ReiserFS, I recreated the initrd-2.2.16-10mdk.img
>and
>
>edited the menu.lst.
>
>Now it won't boot, anding with a kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
>on 03:07
>
>This is the only kernel on the hard disk, what can I do to recover this
>machine?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>=-=
>kk1
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