I recently tried to uppgrade to 2.0.35 and it completely trashed my
filesystem. I have now spent about two weeks worth of evenings to figure it
out and failed. Now I need help from you experts out there:)
I am running a pentium 200mmx with 96M and two 4.3G discs.
To trace the problem I reinstalled a plain redhat 5.0 with the 2.0.32 kernel
on each drive (thus I have two separate systems). This works just fine.
Then I recompiled the 2.0.32 kernel on hdb (the second drive), installed it
and made it work fine.
I did the same thing with the 2.0.33 kernel and it still works fine. (still on
hdb)
Then I tried the 2.0.34 kernel.
Initially it works fine. The first boot is ok and I can run X and basicly do
anything I want.
Then I shutdown the system with: shutdown -r now
Shutdown looks normal to me (with 6 months linux experience)
The reboot halts with the message: kernel panic! failed to mount root on 3.10
I now boot from hda (no problem, still 2.0.32) and try to repair the /
partition on hdb with fsck and fsck.ext2. This puts everything in lost+found
and names it #xyzv something where xyzv is a number, most of it is unredable.
If I try to reboot from hdb after the "repair" I get a message:failed to open
initial console.
>From this point all I can do is reinstall (or ?)
I get exactly the same behaviour from 2.0.35
I have read faq's howto's and scanned mailing archives but I cant figure out
what I am doing wrong. Chances are the I am missing something simple but it
worked for 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 (I am not a kernel hacker (yet)).
I can reproduce this every time but since it trashes everything I cant get to
the logs afterwards so I cant really submit them.
Any help or suggestions are appeciated.
/Anders
-- Anders Henriksson tel: +46 13 288983 TOSCA, IDA fax: +46 13 282606 Linkoping University S-581 83 Linkoping E-Mail: andhe@ida.liu.se Sweden WWW: http://www.ida.liu.se/~andhe/
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