[luau] cursed kernel panic

[R Scott Belford]

Scott, let us remember the KISS concept, Keep it Simple Shi....., wait, 
wait, Keep it Simple Stupid.  Why don't you try removing one of the 
controllers and avoid confusing the installation process?

r


On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 02:44  PM, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> 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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