Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262561AbUCJJc6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:32:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262562AbUCJJc5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:32:57 -0500 Received: from brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.34]:42718 "EHLO brmea-mail-3.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262561AbUCJJct (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:32:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:05:31 -0500 From: Sesha Muneendra Swameejee Panda Subject: Re: Kernel panic with SLES8.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-to: Psm.Swamiji@Sun.COM Message-id: <404F750B.4040100@Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 References: <404F5FC1.7070207@Sun.COM> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1657 Lines: 71 Hi, The follwing are the detailed messages while kernel panic. ------ Pending list: Kernel Free SCB list: 3 1 0 DevQ(0:0:0): ) waiting DevQ(0:0:0): ) waiting aic7xxx_abort returnss 0x2002 scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: ho st 1 channel 0 id 15 lun 0 Loading module ext3 ... Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-64GB-SMP/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.0 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or 08:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 -------- The system has three partitions. 1. /dev/sda1 /boot 125 MB ext3 2. /dev/sda2 / 30.5 GB ext3 3. /dev/sda3 swap 3.5 GB swap And the RAM is 2048MB. Boot options used : root=/dev/sda2 mem=2048M. Any clues? Thanks, P.S.M.Swamiji Sesha Muneendra Swameejee Panda wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the SLES8.0 on a LX50 server. The installation went > fine. While coming up the kernel panics with the below message. > > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 > > I have tried the workaround by give mem=2048M for boot options . This > does not work and give the same problem. > > Can anyone of you throw light on this? > > Your help is highly appreciated. > -- Regards, P.S.M.Swamiji Ph:2298989 x 27566 "LIFE IS ALREADY SHORT, DONT MAKE IT SHORTER by SMOKING OR ARGUING." - 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/