can't seem to boot SuSE 9.0 (II)
ray field
laid out enough information about this problem, maybe someone
can tell me what I've left out. I won't pretend to know very
much but I have been doing some Googling but not coming up with
anything. but as I say if there's something I've neglected to
put in here, by all means let me have it...
I told YAST to install the boot loader in the boot sector of
the boot partition, which it informed me was
/dev/hdb3
after I select SuSE from the VPART boot, the screen reads:
GRUB loading Stage 2
soon the Grub> prompt comes up with its little disclaimer
I type
root ( [TAB]
returns
possible disks are fd0 hd0 hd1
(how come it didn't list hdb3?)
then I type
root (hd1,2) [ENTER]
returns
Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
I type
kernel /boot/vm [TAB]
returns
vmlinuz-3.4.21-99.default vmlinuz vmlinuz-3.4.21-99.default.gz
I type
kernel /boot /vmlinuz
returns
[linux-bzimage, setup=0x1400, size= 0x1218 cd]
I type
initrd /boot/initrd
returns
Linux-initrd @ 0xdf7f000,0x700fa bytes
which seems to start the booting process -- with lots of text
scrolling by, until
Loading kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o
sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on sd(8,5)
kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:05
and that's all she wrote
I thought my BIOS was recent enough (the machine is fairly old
-- a Supermicro P6 w/onboard SCSI) that disk translation was
enabled, but am I mistaken? does anything suggest itself to
anyone?
tia,
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-rafe t.
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vturner
Do you have the correct entry for the root ('/') partition in /etc/fstab?
Using another linux image or the Suse CD-ROM, mount the partition and
examine the contents of this file.
ray field
vturner <ren...@yahoo.com> wrote:
....
>Do you have the correct entry for the root ('/') partition in /etc/fstab?
>Using another linux image or the Suse CD-ROM, mount the partition and
>examine the contents of this file.
thank you, will have a look over the weekend.
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-rafe t.
www.ray-field.com
ray field
I figured out what was wrong -- should have been able to
tell just from Yast's identifying a /dev/hdb3: I had been
using an old Maxtor IDE drive along with the SCSI HD, but it
was jumpered as a slave. which probably explains the
occasional funkiness I'd gotten over the years.
as it happens, pulling it out and rejumpering it was enough
to give it clicking death -- the thing never really was any
good. (tried freezing it and also dropping it to see if I
could rouse it long enough to pull data off it -- no such
luck). I hadn't backed up most of it for three or four
months but never really used it much for serious work so no
big deal.
anyway, went to Circuit CIty and replaced it with a Western
Digital 40gb, jumpered it as solo, repartitioned, and
installed SuSE 9.0 successfully last night. looking forward
to playing around with it.
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-rafe t.
www.ray-field.com