General :: Getting Info On Kernel On Another Disk - Kernel Panic Error 6 Ext3
Feb 13, 2011
Dell laptop booting from a USB stick with a CentOS 5.5 minimum installation.
Uncompressing Linux...OK, booting the kernel.
Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.13 starting
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd-dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - no syncing: Attempted to kill init!
1. Does minimum installation not drop on a kernel or initrd with ext3 support? I can't imagine that's true, but have to ask.
2. The USB stick is single partition ext3. Maybe there is some limitation specifically related to USB stick booting that requires boot to be FAT16 or FAT32? Except the CentOS 5.5 installer refuses to let me install on either FAT.
3. How can I do the equivalent of lsmod on a linux installation that will not boot? i.e. I have CentOS x86_64 running in VirtualBox, I can plug the USB stick in there, so how do I get information on the USB stick's kernel and initrd if I can't boot from it?
4. Is it possible to rebuild the i386 based initrd on this USB stick, when the computer is not booted from that stick, with a system that's x86_64 based?
System Info:
Dell Latitude i686 Laptop which has run CentOS 5.5 and Fedora 12,13,14 in the past, and boots from Fedora 14 Live CD transferred to a USB stick. So I know USB booting is possible on this machine, and this stick.
The process of creating the stick:
CentOS 5.5 i386 on a USB stick. Old Dell i686 laptop which has previously run CentOS 5.5 installed from DVD, and has successfully booted from this same USB stick holding transferred Fedora 12,13,14 Live CDs. CentOS 5.5 was installed onto the USB drive directly by the CentOS 5.5 DVD installer (running virtualized in VirtualBox 4.02 on Mac OS X 10.6.5.). No errors or complaints during installation.
For whatever reason, the installer did not do some things correctly. First Grub wasn't working correctly, I got that sorted out and have the Grub+CentOS splash screen, it finds vmlinuz and the initrd, and then I get a kernel panic.
Ext3 was built into the kernel and that's why I'm getting this message. I do not know how the installer would have dropped a kernel or initrd during instalation that that don't contain such a basic thing that obviously comes in linux kernel 2.6.18-89 EL.
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Jan 26, 2011
I am getting Kernel panic. I was getting is very frequently before, then I re-installed and it starts off fine then after a while it starts happening again.The problem is I have no idea what is causing it. The screen is completely frozen and won't respond to anything. The Alt sysreq combinations don't work, and I have to power off with the button.
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But already converted the VMware HD to the system, it tries to start but it shows some errors and in a message "kernel panic - not syncing: attemped to kill init"
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alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptspi
ata_piix alias scsi_hostadapter2
Look at the picture attached the full error.
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we are facing the problem related to Kernel panic in linux . Could u send me details of kernel panic . Why the kernel panic occur and how to resolve this problen
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Kernel Output:
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Kernel Panic.
I am using
"HP Pavilion dvb 111x"
"AMD Turion X2"
"ATI RADEON Graphic Card"
And "RHEL5"
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" ide_generic :I/O resorce 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide_generic :I/O resorce 0x170-0x177 not free.
Redhat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting.
mount : Could not find filesystem. '/dev/root'
setuproot : mounting /dev failed : no such file or directory
setuproot : mounting /proc failed : no such file or directory
setuproot : mounting /sys failed : no such file or directory
switchroot : mount failed : no such file or directory
Kernel Panic not Synching:
attempt to kill init! "
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Here is how the end of the kernelcomplie look like.
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Thread 1 (<main task>):
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# make && make modules_install
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sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
EXT3-fs (sda3): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)
List of all partitions:
0800 313474754 sda driver: sd
0801 56196 sda1
0802 2104515 sda2
0803 310407930 sda3
0810 48843636123 sdb driver: sd
0811 48843636123 sdb1
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Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 #1
Call trace
? printl+0xf/0x11
panic+0x50/0x146
mount_block_root+0x161/0x170
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