linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting

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Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:55:03 +1000 (EST)
From:	"NeilBrown" <neilb@...e.de>
To:	"Jaswinder Singh Rajput" <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Chris Clayton" <chris2553@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"James Bottomley" <james.bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	"scsi" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting

On Mon, June 8, 2009 8:31 am, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 19:38 +0100, Chris Clayton wrote:
>> 2009/6/7 Jaswinder Singh Ra
>> >> > http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8931/dscn0610.jpg

This message says that it found a vfat filesystem on 8:3x (I cannot see
what digit should be 'x').  That is probably sdc1 or sdc2. Maybe even
sdc6 or sdc7.
However the vfat filesystem didn't have /sbin/init.

>> http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn0617b.jpg

This one says it couldn't find anything at 8,22, which I think
should be sdb6.
It also shows that you have and sdc6, but sdb only goes up to sdb3.

So it seems that your disk drives have changed name - not a wholely
unexpected event these days.

We now need answers to questions like:
 - what device do you expect the root filesystem to be on
 - how is the kernel being told this?  Maybe it is hard coded
    into your initrd.  Knowing which distro and what /etc/fstab
    says might help (though it wouldn't help me, I'm just about out
    of my depth at this point)
Maybe if you changed /etc/fstab to mount by uuid instead of hardcoding
e.g. /etc/sdb3, and then run "mkinitramfs" or whatever, it might work.

Good luck,
NeilBrown

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