[wplug] Kernel Compile Error

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Mon Aug 23 14:49:01 EDT 2004


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Wise, Jeremey wrote:

> > VFS: Mounted root  (ext2 filesystem).
> > Starting udev
> > Creating devices
> > Loading kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
> > reiserfs: disagrees about version of symbol
> > insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-Palm/kernel....-l
> invalid
> > module format
> > Waiting for device /dev/hda3 to appear: ok
> > rootfs: major=3 minor=3 devn=771
> > warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory....
> > warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or direcotry...
> > ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard...
> > hda: read_intr: status 0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error}
> > hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { Sector IdNotFount }, LBAsect=5835196,
> > sector=58351696
> > <snip> error code of last two lines incrament over forty of fifty
> pages>
> > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 58351696
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3)


Based on those errors above, I suspect 1 of 2 things. Either failing
hardware, or you machine is setup with an initrd, and you didn't update it
with the new rieserfs modules. RH has a tool called mkinitrd for this
purpose, but I've found that's not universal.

-james




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