Was there any recent maintenance done? After maintenance (especially
kernel maintenance) usually mkinitrd and zipl does need to be run before
rebooting. Do you have a backup of this disk?
Marist EDU wrote:
I booted into the install partition and was successfully able to mount
dasda1 and view the contents.
Should I try to ZIPL it again?
Josh
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Posted At: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:34 AM
Posted To: Marist EDU
Conversation: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic
Subject: Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic
Do yo have another SLES8 guest available? Try LINKing to the failing
guests root file system from it and see if you can mount it.
Marist EDU wrote:
This SLES8 guest under z/VM stopped responding and now when we log on
the guest we get the following messages.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
cryptoapi: loaded
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 694k freed
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-94, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "dasdb1" or 5e:05
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:05
HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 80230D08
Josh Konkol, CCSE CNE MCSE
Technical Research Specialist
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