[PlanetCCRMA] PlanetEdge 2vS7 kernel fails on SiS machine

[Mark Knecht]

Fingers went too fast...

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3,exec    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
none                    /var/lib/jack/tmp       tmpfs   defaults         0 0



# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.8.1-1.520.2vS7.ll.rhfc2.ccrma)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-1.520.2vS7.ll.rhfc2.ccrma ro
root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.8.1-1.520.2vS7.ll.rhfc2.ccrma.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.6_FC2)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.7-1.437.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.437.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.437.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
[root at Christmas mark]#






On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:17:59 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2004 14:10:04 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> 
> 
> <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:42, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >
> > >    Some feedback. The PlanetEdge S7 kernel is failing to boot on an
> > > SiS machine I have here. The failure messages look like:
> > >
> > > mount: error 19 mounting ext3,exec
> > > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2
> > >
> > > and then a kernel panic message.
> > >
> > > The machine works fine with 2.6.7-1.437.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma and with 2.6.9-1.6_FC2
> >
> > Interesting, what does it say (if anything) about the hard disks? My
> > guess would be that the drives are numbered differently. Do you mount by
> > label as is the default (check what you have in /etc/fstab)?
> >
> > -- Fernando
> >
> >
> 
> Hi,
>    I thin I'm doing this correctly. Here's fstab and grub.conf:
>