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 1PE3n7-0001kF-0h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:40:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83C99E08A0; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B042E08A0 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0LBD00LQXFP4RBA0@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:39:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel In-reply-to: <20101104170834.3faa5ec0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <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 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 References: <4CD2E093.5030008@optonline.net> <201011041852.51375.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4CD2E6A5.5050502@optonline.net> <20101104170834.3faa5ec0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101030 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ca137e04-89bb-4b32-aad3-b0958161baf9 X-Archives-Hash: 26693038707a133132b61063a293d7dc On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote: >=20 >> The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it= . >> 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 >=20 I have /boot as ext2 and the rest ext3 with lvm2. $ 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 The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got the same error. "kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block (2,0)" 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 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 Thanks, --dhk