Slackware :: What Missing In My Kernel Configuration - Panic
Oct 4, 2009
I have gone through all the kernel config options repeatedly, but everytime I get the same error after running my configured kernel.
To begin with, after unpacking the kernel I get Undefined video mode numer: 305 and then a selection of video modes appears.
Why are the standard settings in my lilo 1024x768x256 (vga 773) not accepted?
VFS: Cannot open root device "808" or unknown block(8,8) Please append a correct "root"=" boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic- not syncing :VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(8,8)
My partitions are ext2, and this format (as well as other formats) are compiled in the kernel.
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Jan 20, 2010
I have one machine where I have several versions installed on different partitions. The base partition (/dev/hda1) is Slack 12.1. On a spare partition (/dev/hdc4) I had installed Slackware64-current. Last week I slackpkg upgraded and installed the 2.6.32.2 kernel, and now that partition will not boot. I know that with the new kernels the hd* designation has been removed, and have already redone that fstab (accessing it from a different boot) to reflect the sd*. Here is the slack64 section of my lilo.conf:
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# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /other/spare4/boot/vmlinuz
[code]....
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Jun 11, 2010
I have a CentOS 5.4 storage server with LVM/RAID1 setup, I need to change the motherboard from Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2C to Asus P5K-E. After the switch, I got kernel panic during boot (the following is copied manually from the screen, is these stuff recorded somewhere in the log? I checked /var/log/messeges but didn't find anything):
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Scanning and configuring dmraid support
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays
md: autorun....
md: ... autorun DONE
[code]....
I used CentOS CDROM and entered rescue mode to take a look, some findings:
1. Initially the drive label is different from my old system, for example the old sdb became sdc. I switched the SATA cable around to get this sorted out except one IDE drive (originally hda, now hde), but this drive is not used in RAID
2. After the label is fixed, I used mdadm to check RAID1 devices (md0/1/2/3), it seems each device is missing a drive (originally md0 is created by sda1+sdb1, now it's just sdb1, and thus degraded). I used mdadm to re-add the missing drive, mdadm --detail shows everything is fine now.
3. Step 2 didn't fix the error, so I "chroot /mnt/sysimage/" and took a look around, all the directories seem fine, include the ones on "main" volume group. vgscan/vgdisplay/lvdisplay shows all the vg and lv as they should be.
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Nov 2, 2015
I have a system that was upgraded from Debian 7 to 8. Unfortunately it is not able to boot from the new kernel 3.16. Only the old 3.2 kernel is able to boot. I could transfer a backup, install it in Virtualbox, redo the upgrade and I can reproduce the error..The last error before "panic" is this line
Code: Select all 59.073579] Freeing unused kernel memory: 216K (ffff8800017ca000 - ffff880001800000)
Loading, please wait...
[Â Â 59.226154] systemd-udevd[53]: starting version 215
[Â Â 59.326564] random: systemd-udevd urandom read with 4 bits of entropy available
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... /init: .: line 210: can't open '/scripts/init-premount/ORDER'
[Â Â 59.552148] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000200
The directory is indeed empty. I have reinstalled
Code: Select allapt-get install -reinstall initramfs-tools
and rerun initramfs
Code: Select allupdate-initramfs -c -u
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Mar 23, 2010
I would like to upgrade from my slackware version 12.2.0 based system. I have 200GB IDE hard drive. Tried installing with kernel version 2.6.32.7. The installation would not boot. The kernel is looking for root on sda1 when it should be hda1. Is there a way other than reconfiguring, compiling and building the kernel?
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May 17, 2010
I am trying to install slackware 13 on a dell poweredge. However I am getting a kernel panic on the "Fusion MPT 3.04.07" driver. This is preventing the installer from detecting the SCSI hard drives. I have been able to install sucessfully with 12.0. Can anyone suggest how to fix this?
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Jan 29, 2010
I updated my slackware 13 to current with the commands as writes in man slackpkg:
slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
but now it's print kernel panic and I can't restore it.I tryed to boot with root=/dev/sda3 parametre, but not effect. Do you have ideas?
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May 20, 2010
I attempted to upgrade a Slackware 13.0 fresh install to current. First I updated 13.0 by running:
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slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all
I then amended the mirror to current and ran the following commands
Code:
slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all
[Code]...
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Feb 19, 2016
I recently tried to install php5-gd package on my debian vmware server and it failed at libc6 - i386.
Afterwards every command other than CD caused a Segmentation fault and the server would no long boot, showing the following error
[ 4.808086] init[1]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bff4645c error 14 in init[8048000+8000]
[ 4.808372] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ 4.808442] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 Debian 3.2.65-1
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Jun 7, 2010
I am using a kernel with no initrd. I have had this kind of panic before. Usually it means that the kernel can access the hard drive because the driver for the controller or filesystem isn't built into the kernel.
The kernel is 2.6.34 vanilla.
My IDE controller is a Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 5513, and I built the driver for it into the kernel BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y
My /boot (hda1) is ext2, and everything else is ext3
EXT2_FS=y
EXT3_FS=y
My grub entry (hda2 is my root partition) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2
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May 30, 2011
i immigrate to Debian Squeeze. So, for each time i want to start debian i have a kernel panic and ( mouse + keyboard blocked ), I can't use anything.Here is my kern.log pastebin
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Jul 13, 2011
I am currently having issues with system freeze when unmounting portable hard drives. This happens almost every single time. Normal USB sticks are fine and do not produce the freeze. I am using kernel 3.0.0-rc6, however the issue also persists when switching back to 2.6.39. This is the error message i get when freeze occurs, reverting to terminal output:
WARNING! power/level is deprecated use power/control instead
Jul 13 18:26:49 destiny kernel: [ 6196.892776] Call Trace:
Jul 13 18:26:49 destiny kernel: [ 6196.892803] [<ffffffffa008feec>] ? scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd+0x15/0x104 [scsi_mod]
[Code]...
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Aug 21, 2011
I am running Debian squeeze. A while ago I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.38 from backports. Just now I thought it would be good to upgrade to 2.6.39 from backports. Upgrade went fine, but after rebooting I get a kernel panics rightaway.
"No filesystem could mount root, tried:"
"Kernel panics = not syncing: VFA: Unable to mount root fs on unkown-block(0,0)."
This is the first time one of Linux installations halts/panics on booting, so I don't know what to do now. I tried booting the recovery entry from the grub boot menu, but same result.
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Apr 19, 2011
I have been dual booting "Windoz" (hda1) and slackware 11 (RTAI - hda 5) old system. The problem happen after I installed slackware 13(sda8) on the same hard drive. I was able to mount my old slack11 (now (sda5)) to slack13 to read. So I wanted to boot to slack11.
MY Lilo on slack 13:
Now when I boot to Slackware11 I get:
VFS:
How can I boot a old "hda" image on "sda" system. With a floppy I can go back to Slackware11.
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Jul 16, 2010
today I updated my Slackware 13.0 to 13.1. Unfortunately it didn't boot any longer. I probably forgot to run "lilo" before restarting. However, I reinstalled Slackware and I installed grub instead of lilo I'm more familiar with it..
This was my first menu.lst config:
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title Linux (uuid)
root(hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=UUID=6a8096a3-3915-4ef2-8984-976e42d04cfc ro vga=0x031b
While booting it stopped and printed this message:
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Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS; Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
Then I compared it to other Linux system on different computers and I noticed that every of them, who are using uuids, using an initrd as well. So I created one and now it boots properly.
I just wonder, why? Why does it need an initrd to boot by using uuids?
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Jun 5, 2010
im a rookie at configuring linux and i have problem booting slackware 13.1 just installed. i get a message similar to this Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- block(8,4) i got this one from another user who has a similar problem, they say i should fix lilo.conf and it actually was pointing to a wrong partition so i fixed it. i also fixed /etc/fstab to make it point to the right partition /dev/sda3. but after fixing the files, it still wants to load something in /dev/sda4, i dont know why so what should i do next, please explain with commands and not just words. edit this is my lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
boot = /dev/sda3
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Feb 11, 2011
I upgraded to the latest -current just like always. I do the kernel packages last. This time, the machine failed to boot, telling me that it could not find the kernel modules. Well, rats.
I booted with a slackware dvd, passed the huge.s kernel, and booted into /dev/sda7, which is my main partition. I mounted /dev/sda7, and installed the kernel-modules-2.6.35.11 pkg. Rebooted, and got the same error?
I booted again with the dvd, mounted the partition, and navigated to /lib/modules - no 2.6.35.11 in there!
How do I get that package to install?
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Dec 17, 2010
This may sound ridiculous, but after installing Debian 5 (from CD 1) in my laptop, ASUS UL80VT, it fails to detect the Ethernet device. The device is "Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Ethernet Controller". I guess the problem comes with the old kernel of version 5. I was intending to compile the latest kernel anyway. But the problem is is there any heads up i need to download the kernel and trying to compile it? Is there anyone who uses Debian on UL80VT. If there is, does it works okay?In short I want to compile the latest kernel, hoping it will fix the Ethernet device. There are installers available with the latest kernel. But I want to do it on my own.
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Nov 19, 2010
I tried this : [URL].. Compiled my kernel with all cgroups options, but /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu, and i can't mkdir it.
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Jun 15, 2010
I have recompiled a few kernels, but all on 32bit systems so not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Running Arch Linux 64bit, most recent version.
Kernel Output:
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My first thoughts was that it might be my grub bootloader configuration, so had a big play around with that but it didn't fix it. Also made sure support was built for filesystems. However almost all that Fstab mounts are ext3 anyway, and certainly the root and /boot are. Now thinking it may be a memory error so will run a check when I shutdown.
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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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Dec 31, 2008
I have the following strange thing with a RHEL4 installation. Since last week, the system did a reboot and now something is really fucked up. During boot we get the following messages (don't care about 'strange' typo's, my colleague typed it 'blind' from the screen)
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The strange thing is that we never see a 'could not mount blabla' or similar messages. First we thought it was a failing kernel update by plesk, but even after manually updating the kernel with RHN RPM's, still the same message. Booting with rescue mode and then chroot the system works. After that we even can start things like plesk and so on.
We double checked things with another RHEL4 install, and at least two things were odd:
1: the working machine has /dev/dm-0 and /dev/dm-1, the broken one doesn't
2: some files on /dev didn't have group root, but 252
We tried to recreate the /dev/dm-X nodes with [vgmknodes -v], output:
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A fdisk /dev/sda shows: /dev/sda2 XX XXX XXXXX Linux LVM (I removed the numbers because this line is from another machine, but rest was identical)
We have a copy of the boot partition so if one need more info please let me know.
grub.conf:
Code:
last part of init extracted from initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp.img:
Code:
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Jun 25, 2010
I am running an Hp Pavillion dv6000 with the Broadcom card that never seems to work for Linux. I recently talked with my friend who said he found a way to get it work.following his instructions I opened Synaptic and checked the package bmcwl-kernel-source to be installed.I went through the process of it all and it said it had install successfully. I restarted the computer and when I tried to enter my operating system I got this error "Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown - block(8,1)"
I have previous versions of Linux on my computer so I can still get in to those if need be but I don't know how to undo what I did or why it isn't working for that matter. Does anyone have any ideas as to why I am getting this error and how I can fix it?
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Jul 17, 2010
this is what i did i downloaded the latest stable kernel archive from kernel.org and extracted the archive into the download directory (i don't think that matters though) then i downloaded and installed the ncurses archive (needed for menuconfig) then i opened a terminal and navigated to the directory that was extracted from the archive and issues the floowing commands
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Jan 26, 2010
I'm building an i7 based machine and I've been looking at kernel optimizations for it. One kernel option that I'm sketchy on and haven't been able to find a good resource for is for MAXIMUM NUMA NODES. The default is 6, but I'm not sure if this is best for my particular hardware or not and I'm not exactly sure what this is all about.
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Mar 12, 2010
I recently did a fresh install of current and once I had it up and running I compiled a fresh 2.6.33 kernel using my old config file, but now I get this warning durning boot, specifically during module loading WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/sound, it will be ignored in a future release. This doesn't seem to be causing any problems but I am curious to know what the message meams? I checked /etc/modprobe but everything looks normal.
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Apr 19, 2011
Im am building a Linux distro. It will be very tiny and fast.
I only have a minimal linuxkernel (bzImage) who is 1,2 mb big. And then I have Busybox who is 174,6 kb big.
The commands in busybox is: cd, ls, mkdir, rmdir, wget, httpd, clear, rm, poweroff, halt, reboot, fdisk, mount, umount, free, and cp.
When I compiled the kernel i use initramfs/initrd function and point it to a folder where initrd/initramfs source is.
The kernel works OK with others initramfs/initrd files. But not with my own.
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Here is how the end of the kernelcomplie look like.
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Here is my init file who is the initrd/initramfs source.
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The initramfs folder contains "bin" (folder) and "init" a file. No more.
The problem is that the kernel cannot find/read init file.
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Mar 28, 2011
Recently i've been playing with few variations of linux distros since my Windows XP got infected with something that makes anything flash-player related crash or restart computer even(im saying this because it might be related), reinstall didn't help fix it so i decided to better switch back to Linux world and tried some newest distros. Everything was nice untill..recently some distros after installation gave me kernel-panic or caps lock+scroll lock lights blinking..trouble is Fedora 14 just gave me same stuff after i went maybe 5mins away from keyboard with web browser open then came back to notice..if at first i thought it was wrongly made distribution now i'm bit scared that my PC is dying..i did basic search in google and people say it may be related to hardware beeing too old or drivers but when i use it then i don't encounter this - just when afk. I have almost none experience in Fedora so was just wondering if someone could point me to right direction
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Jun 25, 2011
I have a CR-48 running Ubuntu 11.04. I've had some continual issues with it, along with other Linux distros I tried. There are times my laptop freezes completely during mid use. If I power off and back on, 70% of the time it doesn't detect the hard drive upon next boot. If I go into BIOS, no SSD detected. If I pull the battery, hit the power button, put battery back in, it'll run fine for a while.
I'm up in the air if it's a hard drive issue or motherboard issue. Once I got this kernel panic I sat here for a half hour on another system typing it up. I hope somebody can look at it and make sense of it and tell me what essentially is happening.
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Jan 9, 2010
running Kernel 2.6.9.89 just updated from RHN using up2date...
This server runs for a random 5-30 mins then throws the kernel panic.
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