[Sderby] Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 21:03

[David Bottrill]

Chris,

I have then non-SCSI version of this board, running SuSE8.0 as my
server, When I tried to install SuSE8.1 on it, it would boot, but I
couldn't get it to recognise any network cards I installed so for the
time being I reverted back to 8.0.

I now have removable drive caddies so I can easily swap out my boot disk
to try it with another. As this is now quite an old board, have you
looked for any BIOS updates?

By the may I never could get the USB interfaces to work reliably with
any version of Linux, I think there are some serious problems with this
board.

David Bottrill


On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 11:41, Ron Smith wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I will try what you suggest, It may interest you to know that on the same
> machine Mainboard Gigabyte GA-6BXDS, I have installed (With no problem at
> all) Mandrake v9.
> 
> Also SUSE donot list this board in their compatible hardware list.
> 
> 
> --
> Ron Smith   email: ron@brooklands-farm.co.uk
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sderby-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:sderby-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of chris
> Sent: 22 December 2002 10:40
> To: sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sderby] Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on
> 21:03
> 
> 
> Ron
> 
> I use Mandrake, so don't know my way around SuSe very well, but, for
> what it's worth, here's what I'd try...
> 
> Copy a boot image from the installation disk to a floppy.  Boot to the
> floppy.  At the command prompt, type "root=sda3" (as in the error
> message you quoted).  Hopefully, that will enable Lilo to locate the
> root filesystem and load Linux.  Once running, you can reconfigure Lilo
> to boot from sda3.
> 
> I'm a newbie myself, and had a similar prob trying to install MD 8.2,
> where it just halted with a 'kernel panic...' error message.  I had to
> tell it precisely how much ram was in the system, after deducting the 16
> mb used for video.  This took some time to work-out!  It did, however,
> teach me that there's usually a work-round for these probs :-)
> 
> Good luck...
> 
> Ron Smith wrote:
> 
> > I've bought a copy of Suse Linux v8.1 pro. I have loaded it and now when
> >booting it hangs on an error:-
> >Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 21:03
> >
> >The machine I loaded is a Dual P III 800 the Hard Drives are mounted on a
> >pci Raid card (100 udma) instead of the on board IDE ports (UDMA66).
> >
> >I think i have pushed my look too far!! When I boot I have a choice of
> Linux
> >or Linux Safe Settings, when I choose the latter I boot to a command prompt
> >but, of course; I do not know enough to go futher.
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> >--
> >Next Attempt
> >Disconnected IDE drives, unplugged pci Raid card.
> >
> >Installed SCSI  Hard Drive
> >
> >(Initial attempts at Suse install ended with not System Disk failure) so
> >
> >Formatted and made bootable
> >Ran SUSE 8.1 Installation - This time boot OK!
> >
> >Error
> >
> >KMOD: failed to exec /sbin /modprobe -s -k block major-8 errno=2
> >VFS: cannot open root device "sda3"
> >Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> >Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 08:03
> >
> >
> >--Same hang up again. Can anyone help Please?
> >
> >--
> >Ron Smith   email: ron@brooklands-farm.co.uk
> >
> >
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