Boot error

barn63 · 10-13-2006, 03:22 PM

I installed cups then restarted. I got the following error:

Loading LinuxEBDA is big; Kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage.

Well I got that resolved by booting off the first cd and running lilo again. Well the error went away but not I get a kernel panic that root can not be mounted and the only filesystem tried was ext2. Root is reiserFS. Well I just installed and configured slackware 11 and this happens. How can I get it to mount root again so I dont have to reinstall slackware?

gbonvehi · 10-14-2006, 07:11 PM

Boot with bare.i or huge26.s which has ReiserFS built into them, mount the partition and configure lilo properly. If you installed 2.6 kernel from extra/, you'll have to make a initrd as stated in the documents on extra/linux-2.6.X.XX.

barn63 · 10-14-2006, 09:26 PM

What I don't understand is why would I need to make an initrd when prior to the error:

"Loading LinuxEBDA is big; Kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage"

everything worked fine. All I did to fix that error message was re-run lilo. Also why doesn't it list reiserfs as a filesystem tried?