Re: Can't install Suse9 - kernel panic at install

From: Chris N. Brown (katanacb_at_nospam.comcast.net)
Date: 11/01/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:42:02 -0700

davidl wrote:

> "Chris N. Brown" <katanacb@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:cMednfwj3vsRjT6iRVn-tQ@comcast.com...
>> mjt,
>>
>> thanks for the reply; I have tried all the modes available on the boot
> menu
>> and still the same problem, no matter what I try. As soon as it gets to
>> 'moving into tempfs' I get the messages posted earlier.
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>> mjt wrote:
>>
>> > Chris N. Brown wrote:
>> >
>> >> I can boot using the 9.0 DVD just fine, but as soon
>> >
>> > ... have you tried booting with 'safe mode'?
>> > .
>>
>
> Chris,
> how about to try to replace your HDD or CDROM/DVD IDE cable? I had this
> problem on one of my PC's, and faulty IDE 80-wire cable turned out to be
> the
> reason. I've been getting this kind of seemingly unexplainable errors
> (under Win2k installation)...worth to give it a try maybe.
>
> Good Luck!
> Dave

Thought I would follow up with some more interesting tidbits.

I connected the original IDE drive (master on IDE channel 1 from my original
post) which has a working Linux installation on it from my 'old' host that
this new one is replacing. It's connected as master on IDE channel 1, just
like on my old host. Disconnected *ALL* IDE devices from my new host
except this disk drive, fired up the power, and behold grub takes over and
we try to boot. Partition check goes OK, all devices are recognized,
but ....

... when trying to mount the root filesystem I get a panic yet again. This
time it says "unable to open an initial console" and to try passing init=
to the kernel. Googled on that one and tried a few things (like init=
linuxrc) but nothing worked out. So the problem appears to be something
centered around when my system tries to mount filesystems from any of my
devices. I'm not sure if the installation program on Suse tries to mount
anything from the hard drive or if it tries to mount a virtual filesystem
from the CD during the install, but in any event any time a mount command
is attempted I get hosed.

On the drive I used here, / and /boot are on different partitions if that
matters.

Hopefully this toggles something in someone out there in internet-land.

Again, thanks in advance for any pointers.

-Chris

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