Kernel Panic

[Darin Perusich]

when you get to the rescue mode mount you root filesystem and take a 
look in the /boot directory, depending on how you've setup the 
filesystems you mail need to mount /boot. in /boot there should be a 
bunch off files, vmlinux, initrd, System.map, module-info, ./etc. take a 
look at the lilo.conf, that you mounted and look for the initrd lines. 
they should all point to real files.

if this looks good take a look under the mounted /dev, there should be 
initrd device, /dev/initrd. if i'm not mistaken from your initial 
message your using devfs to manage the /dev filesystem. you can start 
devfsd at on any mount point, run the daemon in debug mode, devfsd 
/mnt/dev -d. if devfsd doesn't startup then this is likely you problem. 
you might need to restore the config file /etc/devfsd.conf, check this 
file also.

i'd try this out to see what happens, then we can move onto other 
possibilities.

darin

S. Lawton wrote:

> 
> On 29 Mar 2002, at 15:24, Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> 
>>You can use the Mandrake CD to boot to rescue (f1), then you can
>>simulate your system by "chroot /mnt" but before you do that, take a
>>look at your partitions by "cfdisk /dev/hd?" with the question mark
>>being your drive letter. Once you know that they are all ok, you can
>>then check your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files, they will be under
>>/mnt/etc/fstab and /mnt/etc/mtab respectively using the restore process.
>>That should get you off to a good start. peter at thecybersource.com 
>>
> 
> fdisk /dev/hda 
> partitions appeared to be OK. 
> 
> a tail of /mnt/etc/log/syslog  yielded the line- 
> MAR 28 15:17:57 Printerdrake PID 3012 
> the moment disaster struck. 
> 
> ls -al of /mnt/etc 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   704 MAR 12 16:50 fstab 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1756 MAR 23 18:26 inittab 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   534 MAR 28 20:13 mtab 
> 
> 
> less of /etc/mtab 
> /dev/hda7/mnt ext2 rw 00     [this should be my linux root] 
> /dev/hda11/mnt/home ext2 rw 00 
> /dev/hda9/mnt/usr ext2 rw 00 
> /dev/hda10/mnt/var ext2 rw 00 
> 
> Then I tried chroot /mnt from the root@ rescue prompt, but got 
> Permission Denied. 
> How does ROOT get DENIED PERMISSION ????? 
> 
> PS- Sorry, Darin, I was reading personal mail and forgot to change 
> identities before opening my nflug inbox. Wrong reply settings and 
> all that. 
> 
> Scott 
> 
> Registered Linux User 261118 
> 
> 


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com