On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM, srikanth tiyyagura <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: srikanth tiyyagura <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:52 PM > Subject: Re: Kernel Panic not syning vfs unable to boot fs and also showing > list of available partitions > To: [email protected] > > > > hai , > thank you for ur response. I have changed my grub list as follows .. > > BEFORE > --------------------------------------------- > title lfs > root (hd0,7) > kernel /boot/lfskernel root=/dev/sda8 > -------------------------------------------------- > > AFTER > ------------------------------------------------ > title lfs > root (hd0,7) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=(hd0,7) > ------------------------------------------------- > > but there is no change ...............
the before is setup as it should be, I think the last poster was suggesting to replace root /dev/sda8 with root (hd0,7) on the 2nd line due to a miscommunication. > the error message in detail like this................. > > ERROR MESSAGE > ------------------------------------------------------------ > BIOS EDD Facility V0.16 (2004-jun-25) ; 1 devices found > input : Imps/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 > md : Autodetecting RAID arrays > md : Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. > md : autorun............ > md : ........... autorun done. > VFS: cannot open root device "(hd0,7)" or unkown block (0,0) > please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > 0800 8192 sda driver: sd > 0810 78149687 sdb driver: sd > 0811 20482843 sdb1 > 0812 1 sdb2 > 0813 8032 sdb3 > 0b00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr > Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS : unable to mount root fs on > unkown-block(0,0) > -------------------------------------------- > > here my fdsk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xc99dc99d > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 2551 9728 57657285 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda3 9729 9729 8032+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda5 2551 2720 1365493+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda6 5101 7650 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda7 7651 9728 16691503+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda8 3744 5100 10900071 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 2721 3743 8217216 83 Linux > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > sda8 -- lfs and sda9 -- mandriva > > Is this problem relates to file system or with the config parameters of he > kernel ? > Can i provide any other information , to slove this problem. > > In my error documentation , no RAID disks message is there , is this > releates to hard disk ? This error message, is simply saying /dev/sda8 does not exist. Could be for a few reasons. Perhaps you have more then one storage device, and it has reversed sda/sdb (Depends which driver is loaded first). It could also be that it is not expanding the extended partition for unknown reasons. or just something as simple as not having a driver compiled in for the harddrive controller that harddrive is on I would suggest adding rootwait to the commandline. It will tell the kernel to wait until /dev/sda8 appears [or wait forever if it does not]. The benefit of this command, is that the kernel will not panic, allowing you to hold down shift & page up/down to review the kernel logs -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: Brittish Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
