kernel panic on SATA
hello everybody, i am new here :)
my english isnt good so forgive me :( my problem is about kernel panic. i have a seagate 200 GB SATA hdd, when i try to install the debian 3.1, after the pre installation, i mean debian install the base elements and then restart, grub loader starts debian but while debian attepmt to load i have token this error pivot_root: No such file or directory or directory /dev/console No such file or directory or directory kernel panic: attepmted to kill init or something like that.. what should i do, what is the problem... thanks everybody |
isn't there anybody knows??? :( i cant install it and this drives me crazy :(
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I've just had what might have been a similar problem.
I don't think most Linux kernels have SATA support built-in by default. You can load it as a module later, but by then it's too late if your root partition is on a SATA disk. You may need to recompile your kernel with support for your SATA controller (check the documentation for whatever board it plugs into - usually the motherboard). Mine's "NVIDIA SATA support", because I have SATA on my mobo with an nForce3 chipset. I can't help you much further with the whole recompiling your kernel thing, because I don't really know anything about Debian. I've just done a very educational Gentoo install, and there was a fine ncurses-based utility called menuconfig that helps you - if you can get a version of that up and running, you'll just need to find the SATA section and enable the drivers for your hardware. If it's anything like the Gentoo version, you DON'T want the 'SATA Support' that's along with all of the IDE stuff - this is deprecated, and clashes with the newer version. This newer version lives inside the SCSI Support section of Device Drivers. Look under 'SCSI low-level drivers'. |
thank you very much for answer, my chipset is nforce3 too, it is a bit interesting i think because i can edit my partitions (debian sees the hdd) but after restart it doesnt work.. let me search a bit.
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Any luck
I am facing the same error after installing debian sarge on the SATA disk. Did you resolved the problem?
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I had a problem where my /boot/grub/menu.lst file had /dev/hda? instead of /dev/sda? in the kernel line for booting like it should be. If your having the same problem then you can either boot with a Knoppix live CD and mount the / partition then edit the menu.lst file to correct it or use something like this after hitting the c key when you get to the grub splash screen to get to the grub command prompt. Code:
root (hd0,1) |
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