reinstalled windows xp sarge kernel panicked

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prakash123 · #1 Post by **prakash123** » 2005-12-03 15:54

Hello All,
I encountered a kernel panic on sarge after M$ XP reinstalled,which i tried to recover by all ways which i know.i already recovered grub.the partition number descended by one number after windows reinstalled;Now i have sata 80GB disk with '/' at sda8 and'/boot' at sda9.i already recovered grub.but the kernel panic which no other distros gave...please enlighten/help me getting this solved...
here is the details:
system startup handwritten

scsi0 :ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE007
ata2 : disabling port
scsi1 :ata_piix
Vendor:ATA Model:ST380013AS Rev:3.18
Type: Direct-Access ANSI scsi revision:05
ide:Assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes;override with idebus=xx
scsi device sda:156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
scsi device sda:drive cace:write back
scsi device sda:156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
scsi device sda:drive cace:write back
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0,channel0,id0,lan0
VFS:Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda7.
mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda10,
missing code page or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try
dmesg |tail or so.
Switching root ...
/usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init ; current directory on the same filesystem as root:Success
kernel panic -not syncing:Attempted to kill
init!
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as you can see the kernel is searching for ext3 on /dev/sda10 while sda8 now contains sarge and sda7 is swap...
heres the edited fstab...
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda9 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
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root@sputnik:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 625 5020281 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 626 5357 38009790 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 626 1221 4787338+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 1222 1532 2498076 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 1533 1666 1076323+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 * 1667 2991 10643031 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 2992 3003 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 3004 4567 12562798+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda11 4568 5357 6345643+ 83 Linux
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i already posted this in linuxquestions.org and other sites with no reply for the past 4 weeks...debian geeks please help me........

domecq · #2 Post by **domecq** » 2005-12-22 01:03

Something is not clear... are you having a problem in attempting to reinstall windows and came accross a kernel panic? Is that what you mean?

dawgie · #3 Post by **dawgie** » 2005-12-22 17:23

I think you need to edit your menu.lst file.

You should have something like this:

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root            (hd0,8)  				 # /sda9 /boot patitiion
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.xxxxx root=/dev/sda8 ro  # the / partition

If you hit the "e" key when the grub selection is highlighted, you can temporarly edit the selection. Grub has tab completion to make it easy.

prakash123 · #4 Post by **prakash123** » 2005-12-31 10:17

domecq wrote:Something is not clear... are you having a problem in attempting to reinstall windows and came accross a kernel panic? Is that what you mean?

Yes.after i reinstalled Win Xp and restored my running sarge's Grub and as said partn numbers got shuffled.anyway i edited menu.lst accordingly and it did not solved the problem.As i have default kernel(2.6.8--) also there i booted with that kernel and i am able to Operate Sarge.so i think it is a problem with udev >0.073 which replaces hotplug package completely in Sid..which i run in my sarge thus making it a 'mixed' distro..ad made it unstalbe..even after i reinstalled 2.6.14-- kernel it again sometimes randomly panicked making it very unstable ..so there isnt a easy solution ...for my case as soon as i entered sarge,i upgraded it to Etch distro(testing) with default kernel 2.6.12--smp.Thank You All Very much Merry X'mas and Happy New Year..