VFS panic: unable to mount root fs on 1st boot after power-on

Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:50:01 +0200


Hi,

my Dell Latitude CPi 300XT seems to have a few problems booting. The
usual sequence after power-on is:

boot#1 -- VFS panic at mount / stage (IBM IDE disk is detected properly
a few steps before)
boot#2 -- boot completes but IDE CDROM isn't detected (!!)
boot#3 -- everything is fine

Using latest BIOS (A04) from Dell's site. Happens on vanilla 2.2.9 and
vanilla 2.3.[45].

I am using RH6.0 and dual-booting NT workstation 4.0sp3 (NT boots okay
whatever condition -- it can't work with the Xircom RBEM56G-100, at
least for now, while Linux can, but it boots fine).

Any idea of what I should check/try ?

[unrelated: copy_kernel_strings should be exported in 2.3.5 to allow
binfmt_misc to load as module]

Cheers,

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

Linux 2.2.9/2.3.5 glibc-2.0.7-29 gcc-2.8.1 binutils-2.9.1.0.24

"It's an ancient story - but you might forget it
be careful what you wish for, 'cause you might regret it" (Steve Wynn)

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