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fatsheep 02-13-2007 06:02 PM
Fatal Startup Error
 
Edit: Sorry, I just realized this should have gone in the installation subforum, if a moderator could move this that would be very kind. Thank you.


I just installed Slackware 11.0. Installation worked great but unfortunately I'm getting errors when I try to boot up my installation with grub. There's a lot of text but the last two lines looked the most important to me:

Quote:
sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,7)
Kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07
I'm booting slackware from Ubuntu's grub. Here's my line for slack in the /etc/fstab:

Quote:
/dev/hda6 /slackware ext3 defaults 0 0
Here's the /boot/grub/menu.lst entry:

Quote:
title Slackware 11
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
If you have any ideas what my problem is, please let me know - I am very eager to try out Slack! :)

angryfirelord 02-13-2007 08:01 PM
Looks like you selected Slackware to be installed to a reiserfs partition, but Ubuntu will try to mount it as an ext3 partiton. Change ext3 to reiserfs.

In your menu.lst file, try changing this to your kernel line:
Code:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=791
Then add:
Code:
savedefault
boot
right underneath kernel (as shown).

fatsheep 02-14-2007 04:58 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by angryfirelord
Looks like you selected Slackware to be installed to a reiserfs partition, but Ubuntu will try to mount it as an ext3 partiton. Change ext3 to reiserfs.

In your menu.lst file, try changing this to your kernel line:
Code:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=791
Then add:
Code:
savedefault
boot
right underneath kernel (as shown).
The partition /dev/hda6 is an EXT3 file system but I'll try what you said...

fatsheep 02-14-2007 08:34 PM
Thanks that worked great. Time to try out Slack now. :)

H_TeXMeX_H 02-14-2007 09:44 PM
Well, it seems it really wasn't ext3 after all.

fatsheep 02-15-2007 02:34 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H
Well, it seems it really wasn't ext3 after all.
GPARTED says it is:

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/7...enshot1li0.png

H_TeXMeX_H 02-15-2007 03:56 PM
try 'blkid' (neat command I learned recently)

fatsheep 02-15-2007 06:40 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H
try 'blkid' (neat command I learned recently)
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ blkid /dev/hda6
/dev/hda6: UUID="8eeee165-b39e-4586-82fb-8cdf1d003ce2" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
It says it's EXT3 too...

H_TeXMeX_H 02-15-2007 09:33 PM
That's strange ... so why does it work then ?

fatsheep 02-17-2007 09:35 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H
That's strange ... so why does it work then ?
I have no idea.


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