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After installing Suse 10.2 on a Raid 5 Rocketraid 1740 on initial boot receive error Kernel panic - not syncing: VGS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2)

After installing Suse 10.2 on a Raid 5 Rocketraid 1740 on initial boot receive error Kernel panic - not syncing: VGS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2)

I am using LiLO as the loader, 4 SATA HD 500 GB each on Raid 5, during installation process all partitions where done as recomended by the installation utility. Its reading from HD because I see load various drivers.

This is the few lines before the error and the error;

md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or unkown-block(8,2)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VGS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2)

rokov

Please post your lilo.conf or grub.conf and /etc/fstab.

gatekeeperpr

ASKER

I am not able to access the information, this reboot was the first one after installation but it never completed (I have installed from different media multiple times). The only this that LILO is doing is showing;

LILO 22.7 Loading oS_10.2....................................
BIOS data check successful then it starts to load multiple drivers like

apm:
audit:
vesafb:
console:
serial:
serial8250:
Floppy drive(s):
serio:
mice:
input:
md:

Then error above.

( I have not written the additional information after the : its just describe version and detected equipment)

rokov

To get this files you need to boot from livecd (install cd) and mount root (and boot, if separate) partition manually. Then copy this files somewhere (flashdrive, for example).

gatekeeperpr

ASKER

Here is the lilo.conf;
**************************************

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jan 31 22:46:29 UTC 2008
menu-scheme = Wb:kw:Wb:Wb
timeout = 80
lba32
change-rules
reset
read-only
default = oS_10.2
message = /boot/message
boot = /dev/sda2

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
label = oS_10.2
append = " resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts"
vga = 0x31a
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default
root = /dev/sda2

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
label = Failsafe
append = "showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3"
vga = normal
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default
root = /dev/sda2

gatekeeperpr

ASKER

Here is fstab;

/dev/sda2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
~

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