[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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