Re: kernel panic during install

From: Larry I Smith (larryXiXsmith_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:17:32 GMT

dave wrote:
> dave wrote:
>
>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I've got a little plain vanilla PIII box with redat 8.0 on it that's been
>>hanging out on the web from my house for several years. rock solid
>>reliable. recently it experienced an attack from somebody sending me huge
>>volumes of bogus email, mails with made up usernames at my domain. by the
>>time I caught it I'd received about 100,000 bogus email. needles to say my
>>harddrive wasn't to happy. the machine went way flaky, I managed to get
>>all the data off of it before it died. first it wouldn't start X, then
>>even at runlevel 3 it would fail to execute command because it couldn't
>>find them, like if I typed dosomething it would say file /bi~/dosomething
>>not found. the command it looked for would be spelled wrong. I assumed the
>>disk was failing. I ended up up putting the drive in another box, mounting
>>it and copying the last of my data that way.
>>
>>sorry about the long prelude but I wanted to give background
>>
>>I go get new 80 gig maxtor harddrive
>>try to install fedora core 1 and right at the beginning I get a kernel
>>panic
>>
>>iso_fs_read_super : bread failed dev=09:02, iso_blknum=16, block = 32
>>Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to Mount root fs on 09:02
>>
>>ok, now the question. at this point it's not even mesing with the
>>harddrive is it? I thought it was just setting up a ram-disk. that
>>iso_blknum kinda looks like it can't read the cd but when I try to run the
>>media check I get the same results. I get the same error installing
>>diferent distro's I have around so I don't think its the media
>>
>>any ideas anybody??
>>
>>Thanks
>>Dave
>
>
> hmm, the plot thickens
> a windows install failed as well
> clearly a hardware problem
>
> Dave

Well, here's a few thoughts:

1) most add-on IDE hard drives come jumpered as "slave" rather
    than "master". check the drive's jumpers against the doc
    that came with the drive

2) some older BIOS's don't support 80GB drives. Does yours?
    Does your BIOS have LBA support? Is it enabled, or disabled?
    see http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/LBA.html
    and http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/modesLBA-c.html

Have fun,
Larry 

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