From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PE5R7-0002Rv-3Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:25:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E0831C056; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D5D1C056 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so1368137ewy.40 for ; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:25:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=7MvEPqTrl+S593TJe0B+/4XaQt3dwwQ6Xql+4hBYtcg=; b=X9v9Hzu4B/l/0GW9xH7i/Ho2NyRKJ3ZTFiNyJbKiYlycNoo0NWelg1QMWc9C7L95Ai wZwKc+sqzAv6DmP1VY6L54PGwob0Yi8stHAdwy7nrY+1BoJjCu1zYtkedOsIF3zqL343 fQ3mPGdt8PwhgeH0lv0Z+krKl3eX4vxhgFhWE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=uW4p3g+zBDkecA7NaN2ja9zLKiAGdj6vRiPPExoxk+c1qdXPhMeTBJ+Wwkl8m4EIuB MNWAkm6cOFAa1iWMrD8wskZrU0ucbnwRnzSi/Bjn6ZvLvRSCfgz35fYVthtMeaBbJr3H wJd40MUnjqxRQwIA8MFM3bh3oFARh0NNCQqOM= Received: by 10.213.20.136 with SMTP id f8mr993812ebb.8.1288898704082; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x54sm254082eeh.23.2010.11.04.12.25.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:25:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:25:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: dhk References: <4CD2E093.5030008@optonline.net> <20101104170834.3faa5ec0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4CD2EF19.9030403@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <4CD2EF19.9030403@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201011042125.35711.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8148645f-5746-4684-8add-95d9f3cf43d5 X-Archives-Hash: 9963bcb10a163a74ff95d7ae16c766ed Apparently, though unproven, at 19:36 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did= =20 opine thusly: > On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote: > >> The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it. > >>=20 > >> I'd have to write it on paper and then reboot to the working kernel. > >=20 > > Which is a lot less work than trying to fix the problem by guesswork. >=20 > I have /boot as ext2 and the rest ext3 with lvm2. >=20 > $ df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 8262068 712028 7130344 10% / > udev 10240 336 9904 4% /dev > /dev/mapper/vg-usr 15481840 12867912 1827496 88% /usr > /dev/mapper/vg-home 51606140 42781428 6203272 88% /home > /dev/mapper/vg-opt 5160576 2635064 2263368 54% /opt > /dev/mapper/vg-var 15481840 2387500 12307908 17% /var > /dev/mapper/vg-tmp 2064208 68708 1890644 4% /tmp > shm 512572 0 512572 0% /dev/shm >=20 > The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got > the same error. >=20 > "kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on > unknown-block (2,0)" >=20 > This is what I had. > < > Second extended fs support =E2=94= =82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 <*> Ext3 journalling file system support > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [ ] Default to 'data=3Dordered' in ext3 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [*] Ext3 extended attributes > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [*] Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [*] Ext3 Security Labels >=20 > This is what I added. > <*> Second extended fs support =E2=94= =82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [ ] Ext2 extended attributes (NEW) > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [ ] Ext2 execute in place support (NEW) > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 <*> Ext3 journalling file system support > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [ ] Default to 'data=3Dordered' in ext3 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [*] Ext3 extended attributes > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [*] Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 [*] Ext3 Security Labels > =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > --dhk Is your / partition in or out of the lvm? =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com