newbie issues....kernel panic: blah blah blah

Rio Nishida · 11-27-2002, 07:51 PM

full installed slackware ISO cd with all packages, no errors.
previous OS: WinMe, WinXP
hard drive: IDE, 30gig:
/dev/hda1 - swap, 1gb
/dev/hda2 - root, 29gb, ext2.
upon reboot, after the boot menu, i get pages and pages of junk, too fast to read. the last screen, where it freezes, displays all this (without the line breaks):

EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
hda1: bad access: block=2 count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 2

EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
hda1: bad access: block=0 count=1
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 0

FAT: unable to read boot sector
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
hda1: bad access: block=0 count=1
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 0

FAT: unable to read boot sector
hda1: bad access: block=0, count=1
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 0

FAT: unable to read boot sector
hda1: bad access: block=64, count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 64

isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:01, iso_blknum=16, block=32
hda1: bad access: block=128, count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 128

read_super_block: bread failed (dev=03:01, block 64, size 1024)
hda1: bad access: block=16, count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 16

read_super_block: bread failed (dev=03:01, block 6, size 1024)
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

i tried all three lilo locations, still the same error after boot menu.

DavidPhillips · 11-27-2002, 07:53 PM

did you install lilo in the mbr

Rio Nishida · 11-27-2002, 07:56 PM

Tinkster · 11-27-2002, 09:32 PM

ide-kernel on a SCSI-box? =)

Cheers,
Tink

Rio Nishida · 11-27-2002, 10:23 PM

nope, i don't have anything that's scsi.

DavidPhillips · 11-28-2002, 02:38 AM

for it to go through the filesystems like that it is just not seeing a linux filesystem on there.

maybe use lba32 in lilo.conf

Rio Nishida · 11-28-2002, 11:55 AM

umm...not to be retarded but...im totally new to linux, how do i do that?

DavidPhillips · 11-28-2002, 12:57 PM

first you will need to access it, since it's not booting you may need to get a root boot disk so you can boot it up and make some changes.

try this first...

hit tab at the boot menu, if it does not show the command promt and a list of images then hit ctrl_x then using an image name from the list do this...

imagename root=/dev/hda1

if that fails try it with hda? until you have tried several of them

if you have another drive try it starting with /dev/hdb1

Bluesuperman · 11-28-2002, 04:31 PM

Which drive is the swap ?

Rio Nishida · 11-28-2002, 04:51 PM

okay. i repartitioned to remove the swap, and ran
fsck -y -v -f /dev/hda1
which a friend suggested. there have been like a million errors so i hope it fixes them...
current config: /dev/hda1 = /

Rio Nishida · 11-28-2002, 04:54 PM

once this finishes, i'm probably going to repartition it again to add the swap again, then re-run fsck and e2fsck. (i removed the swap in the first place because fsck had alotta problems checking it)
here will be the configs:
/dev/hda1 - swap - 1gb
/dev/hda2 - / - 29gb

DavidPhillips · 11-28-2002, 05:25 PM

is the hard drive bad? linux is not very forgiving on bad hard drives.

Rio Nishida · 11-28-2002, 05:41 PM

the hd was working just fine before i installed linux, and the check/format didnt report any errors.
okay, finished all the fsck runs....one directory kept on being corrupt though, so i went ahead and repartitioned as stated in my above post, then ran fsck -y -v -f /dev/hda1 and got this:

the filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 7474233 blocks
the physical size of the device is 248999 blocks
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
Abort? yes
(back to prompt)

suggestions?

DavidPhillips · 11-28-2002, 10:16 PM

my guess is you need to turn of drive translations in the bios

Bluesuperman · 11-28-2002, 11:21 PM

full installed slackware ISO cd with all packages, no errors.
previous OS: WinMe, WinXP
hard drive: IDE, 30gig:
/dev/hda1 - swap, 1gb
/dev/hda2 - root, 29gb, ext2.
upon reboot, after the boot menu, i get pages and pages of junk, too fast to read. the last screen, where it freezes, displays all this (without the line breaks):

EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
hda1: bad access: block=2 count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), secto

It looks like the kernel / lilo is trying to mount your swap instead of your root drive.