[luau] cursed kernel panic
R Scott Belford
sctinc at mac.com
Wed Mar 27 22:25:15 PST 2002
Hey, that did it. I removed the scsi drive and simply installed to the
3ware raid array. Cake. Now to add things and complicate the matter.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 08:06 PM, R Scott Belford wrote:
> 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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