Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:46:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:46:35 -0400 Received: from 205-158-62-55.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.55]:7174 "HELO ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:46:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20021021205234.22237.qmail@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "Lee Chin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:52:34 -0500 Subject: random failure mounting root fs X-Originating-Ip: 66.123.16.74 X-Originating-Server: ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1032 Lines: 27 I'm have an entire self-installing app on a bootable cd created using mkisofs. I use isolinux bootloader to boot from cd with root=/dev/hda (my cdrom drive). Sometimes the process works fine, root is mounted and INIT starts up. Others I get this attempt to access beyond end of device 03:00: rw=0, want=33, limit=2 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:00 I am not understanding why I would get such a random failure. Does this have to do with the CDROM drive speed? Is it preventable? mkisofs v1.13 isolinux v1.76 2.2 and 2.4 kernels Thanks Lee -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/