[luau] cursed kernel panic

[Dean Fujioka]

I just faced something similar with a scsi drive that did not want to boot
after installation was finished.  This may seem off the wall, but try it if
you dare. In the CMOS, set the boot device to be HDD0 instead of SCSI and
reboot.  Of course this only handles an itty bitty piece of your problems,
but you may boot faster.

dean


----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Belford" <sctinc at mac.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] cursed kernel panic


> Warren, Ray, and Wally- Thanks.
>
> Here is where I am.  A bit of background that will help clarify the
picture.
> I do not have any drives on my mboard's ide controllers.  I have an
adaptec
> 2940u2 card controlling a fujitsu scsi drive.  The system is calling this
> drive sda.  My other drives are two ides attached to a 3ware 6200 ide raid
> controller.(the plot thickens)  The kernel recognizes these drives as sdb.
> I had to update anaconda with the 3ware install image linked from this
> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/gotchas/7.2/ page in order for the
> installation to see these drives.  These controllers are on an EPOX 8kha+
> mboard using the VIA KT266A chipset.  Warren, I have found from searches
at
> amdmb.com that there are issues with "some" VIA chipsets.  The link that I
> see that may be most relevant to me is here,
> http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ke_eide-scsi.html  .  I have a corsair 512
mb
> module and and an Athlon XP 1700 on the board. Other cards are a 3com nic
> and a Gainward GeForce 3 card.
>
> Last night, before I patched anaconda to see my 3ware drives, I installed
on
> the scsi disk.  I chose grub and had it install to the mbr.  Upon reboot,
> the computer did not seem to seek this mbr and I was informed that there
is
> no operating system.  I made sure that my bios had scsi as one of my boot
> options.  Reboot with the boot floppy led me part way in the boot process
> before the kernel panic.  I will type the entire error below.
>
> Today I reinstalled Redhat 7.2 with the 3ware image patch.  Disk druid was
> able to see my 3ware and my scsi drives.  This time I installed to the
3ware
> controlled drives.  No problem recognizing, partitioning, and installing.
> This time I had the mbr installed on the scsi drive while the directories
> were on the 3ware drives.  Rebooting this time left me hanging at
"Verifying
> DMI Pool Data"  I updated my motherboard's bios, rebooted, was told
Updating
> ESCD .... Success, Building DMI pool...success, Verifying DMI pool data
> ..... Update Successful  and the system hangs.  Rebooting with the floppy
> gives me the same errors as when I had the OS on my scsi drive.  The error
> is as follows:
>
> After the 3ware and Adaptec module are loaded....
> Loading jbd module
> Journalled Block Device Driver Loaded
> Loading EXT3 Module
> Mounting /proc filesystem
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed :2
> Freeing unused Kernel Memory: 232K freed
> Kernel Panic:  No init found.  Try passing init- option to the kernel.
>
> What I think is happening is that the bios does not know what drive is my
> master and where the mbr is.  When choosing my bootloader, it seems like I
> should put some entry in the "kernel options" box during the lilo/grub
> configuration step.  I just do not know right now, and I would love to
know
> if any of you have a suggestion (if you made it this far in my ramblings)
> :-)
>
> scott
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
> To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [luau] cursed kernel panic
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "R. Scott Belford" <sctinc at mac.com>
> > To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: [luau] cursed kernel panic
> >
> >
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is the mpx chipset on the epox 8kha+ mboard with an Athlon XP
1700
> > and
> > > Redhat's 7.2 distro.  I have just brought it in to the office, and I
am
> > > going to hook it up and try the mem=nopentium option.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Oh, the Epox is a VIA KT266A chipset.  Could you please check the AMBMB
> > Athlon Linux forum about that?  I think some people figured out that
issue
> a
> > while ago.
> >
> >
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