SUMMARY: panic: vfs_mountroot cannot mount root

From: Brian Desmond (brian@chimera.psych.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 07 1998 - 20:45:15 CDT

Hi again sun-managers,

Only 2 replies, one of which was a me too.

Steve Kay (steve@peachy.com) replied saying that he had trouble
like this when he had been supplied with a faulty A5000 array.

iwallace@context.com replied saying he also has this problem when
swapping a system disk from a Sparc 5 to a Sparc 20.

The opinion of a local guru was that the patching procedure had gone
wrong, and that I had to reinstall from backups.

I've done this - I will bite the bullet and try patching again, this time
without fastpatch.

Regards,

Brian

> Hi,
>
> Solaris 2.5.1, Sparc 10.
>
> I've just installed the latest 2.5.1_Recommended patch cluster using
> fastpatch.
>
> When trying to reboot, I get a boot cycle and the following message (retyped
> manually, I think I got it right):
>
> Cannot assemble drivers for root /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/exp@f800000/sd@3:a
> Cannot mount root on /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/exp@f800000/sd@3:a
> fstype ufs
> panic: vfs_mountroot cannot mount root
> rebooting...
> retrying...
>
> I've looked in the summaries and the FAQ's.
>
> Can anybody help save my weekend??? :(
>
> With thanks in advance,
>
> Brian
> 

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Brian Desmond 
Department of Psychology          
University of Melbourne           
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia

Email: brian@psych.unimelb.edu.au
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