Re: kernel panic on mounting root fs

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:58:06 +0100, Robert Lummert wrote:

>> Report back here, good or bad.
>>
>
> After reinstallation, the systems running(!).
> What I did is
> - reinserting a formerly used ide-raid pci-card and deleting
> a raid array in its bios, then removing this card again
> - reinitializing the disks with writing
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdxx bs=512 count=10240
> zeros to all partitions and the disks themselves (hda, hdb)
> and then partitioning them again. Of cause this step removes all
> remaining data from the disks, so it had to be backed up before.
> The first thing did not solve anything with the old installation,
> so I guess that some raid information had been stored to hda that
> was removed with writing zeros.
> I find the whole issue still disturbing and maybe a linux developer
> can use the information to fix a bug that's obviously there
> (e.g. Suse 9.1 did run with no problems on that disk).
> Anyway, I'm glad to have a running system now.
> Thanks again to imotgm for his effort and cheers to all
>
> Robert

Well, I'm glad it"s working for you now. This is pretty much what I would
have suggested, if the test I suggested didn't work. Just out of
curiosity, I wish you would have done the test first. Some things you can
only try when weird, non-reproduceable things happen. ;-)

Good luck, and enjoy.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."


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