From what I found lastnight in dealing w/ a similar issue. I had burned cooker 9.0 cd's off of a recent rsync the mkinitrd is messed up ... If you boot rescue then chroot your /mnt dir after the full install you'll noticed that there is no initrd in the /boot dir And I thought I could just boot chroot then do a nice -20 rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.4.21mdk.rpm and force the recreation of the initrd.img. This didn't' work and errored out on the script.. After looking into this more I found that the mkinitrd was what was bombing out. Something about it complainin on an awk statement on line 2 of the either mkinitrd script or the install-kernel script I'm not sure and I'm not willing to reinstall it @ the moment.
___________________________________________ Brandon Grace Network Security Analyst TTUnet Network Operations Center Texas Tech University ___________________________________________ ��� Linux, Bringing The World To a Brave New Front THE RIGHT ONE -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 08:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Fresh install - kernel panic - rescue fails also I simply booted the pcmcia.img disk - hit F1 and typed rescue (this had worked previously). I then type in the IP address of the FTP host with the full cooker and it loads the second stage fine. I get the ISOLINUX menu and choose to mount the partitions - that's when I receive the error (no reiserfs in kernel) I also booted the 8.2 CD - and was able to get rescue to work and mount the partitions. But I cannot figure out why the system won't boot (everything looks OK under lilo.conf) I get: kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Hope this helps . . . R.Fox On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 14:52, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) writes: > > > I performed a fresh install today with latest Cooker on a notebook. > > > > Install went flawlessly - but after reboot - I get kernel panic. I > > tried with the same boot disk (pcmcia.img) to perform a rescue, but it > > states reiserfs is not in kernel! > > When did it fail, during the rescue? > > If under the pcmcia.img you need reiserfs to start the rescue > (e.g. if the Beta is on a reiserfs partition), that's true that > reiserfs.o is missing. You need to boot on the isolinux enabled > CDROM (e.g. first cdrom of Beta1) for having both pcmcia and > reiserfs and "disk install" support. > > But under pcmcia.img I suppose you would not need reiserfs (e.g. > your pcmcia is for net or cdrom most of the time) so it states > reiserfs is missing when the rescue is booted? Is that true? That > should not happen, though ;p. > > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ >
