[wplug] Kernel Compile Error

[Vanco, Don]

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>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Wise, Jeremey
>Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:09 PM
>To: General user list
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Kernel Compile Error
>
>
>On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 14:49 -0400, James O'Kane wrote:
>> 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
>mkinitrd does come with SuSE.  I have unpacked it and checked 
>it over to
>verify it "looks" ok. I do have suspicions that it is broken but don't
>understand enough about it to 'fix' it. I have tried compiling the
>reiserfs into the kernel but that has no effect on the issue. Is it
>possible that reiserfs module has change in some "incompatable" way? Is
>their a way to debug this further?
	Look at the options for mkinitrd on SuSE.  On RH you can use
command line options to specifically force in modules - by default (and
again, under RH) the command merely looks at additions to
/etc/modules.conf and adds modules found there.  I have no idea how SuSE
may have altered it's mkinitrd, but given the dramatic difference in the
usage of /etc/modules.conf between the 2 it has to be pretty
dramatic....

Don
PS - you need to run spellcheck on your .sig.....

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