Kernal Panic

[Laslo7]

Hello all!

I have a problem with my SuSE 6.3. I am getting a Kernal panic error on boot-up. Any ideas on what caused this and is there a fix without needing the disks I don't have them at the moment(back home with good ol' mom and dad). Any help would be appreciated.


AJ

[Letalis]

Try to give us more info.

[Laslo7]

Ok here is the system.

p2 300
128 meg ram
WD 1.6 hdd (linux)
Quantum 6.4 Hdd (win2k)
Cdrom
Lilo is fine

starts into linux goes through the start-up,

The error is kernel panic
03:03 can't rember it right now

Any Ideas?

AJ

[Laslo7]

Here is more info:

After start-up proceedures,
partition check
then
"vfs:cannot open root device 03:03"
"kernal panic: vfs:cannot open root device 03:03"

Or something to that effect.

Does this help any?


AJ

[daWabbit]

Boot with the SuSE rescue disk (you did make one, didn't you?)and, at the prompt, type in rescue root=<root partition, i.e. hda1> then hit enter. That will get you running. Then reconfig your boot manager to reflect the proper boot partition location, which is the same as what you typed in above to get booted.

[mdwatts]

I don't believe that lilo is fine. The kernel panic usually means the boot manager cannot find the kernel. Boot with a rescue disk (as already suggested), fix /etc/lilo.conf, run /sbin/lilo and reboot.

[Bernd]

I think once I have got the same kernel panic. I had compiled a new kernel and forgotten to compile ext2 support in it.
Of course, if your root partition is a reiserfs you shouldn't forget to support it, too.

Bernd