The first error message I saw was the pivotroot line. All the rest of the
messages looked normal, so I didn't bother writing them down. But, if you
would like to see them, I've included my /var/log/dmesg file below.
--Bill
On Saturday 30 August 2003 07:57, M A Young wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Bill Baker wrote:
> > Recently, my system has been running a little slow, and I had installed a
> > new kernel (2.4.20-20.9), so I decided to reboot. When I selected the
> > new kernel (and even the old kernel), I got a bunch of messages ending
> > with:
> >
> > pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
> > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
>
> These error messages tell you that the initrd failed to mount your main
> root partition. Earlier error messages may give you a clue as to why it
> failed to mount your root partition.
>
> Michael Young
/var/log/dmesg
Linux version 2.4.20-19.9 (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.2.2
20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Tue Jul 15 17:03:30 EDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000f00000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000f00000 - 0000000001000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000001000000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65520
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61424 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 656.476 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1310.72 BogoMIPS
Memory: 251708k/262080k available (1333k kernel code, 6916k reserved, 1001k
data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb71, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router AMD756 VIPER [1022/740b] at 00:07.3
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
AMD7409: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
AMD7409: chipset revision 7
AMD7409: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
AMD_IDE: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 07) UDMA66
controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD307AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
blk: queue c03c5920, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: TDK CDRW121032, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM 16X Maximum, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 60074784 sectors (30758 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3739/255/63, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdb: attached ide-floppy driver.
hdb: No disk in drive
hdb: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 373k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,6): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1751072
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1455692
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1455693
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,6): 3 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
AMD756: dev 1022:740c, router pirq : 4 get irq : 11
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0b.0
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd084a000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:07.4, Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB
usb-ohci.c: AMD756 erratum 4 workaround
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 260088k swap-space (priority -2)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TDK Model: CDRW121032 Rev: 1.08
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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