mkroot: label / not found

tlc tlc at artemide.us
Wed Nov 9 23:09:54 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 15:25 -0500, fneira at defensoria.gob.pe wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> This morning I was working normally on my HP PIV PC with FC4. FC has been
> installed and working without trouble for a couple of months. Hardware has
> not been modified. I was running KDE and suddenly everything stopped
> working.
> 
> Then I rebooted the PC and got the following messages:
> 
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> ERROR opening /dev/console !!!!: 2
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I am im big trouble trying to recover my own workstation and a lot of
> locally archived email messages :-(
> 
> I had been googling with any luck. Any suggestions will be highly
> appreciated. Pardon my English since it is not my native language.
> 
Are you sure you did not upgrade the kernel someplace along the way and
this was the first reboot? Try the 2.6.12-1.1447 or older kernel. My
boxes here that use SATA all have the same problem. Supposedly upgrading
to the the 2.6.13-166* kernel ( still in testing ) fixes it.

> Regards,
> 
> --
> Francisco Neira Basso
> Administrador de Red
> Defensoria del Pueblo
> Lima, Peru -05:00GMT
> 




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