RE: end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1, 0) while booting linux on qemu

[ckim]

Hello all,

 

I figured out what was wrong in this case.

I found several lines above this error message, there was another error saying something like it doesn’t have ram block device.

So I checked the kernel configuration and found BLK_DEV_RAM was set to =n.

Using menucnofig, under device drivers -> block devices, I changed RAM block device support(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM) to =y and added associated configs

(Default number of RAM disks (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT) to 1, and   Default RAM disk size (kbytes) (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIZE) to 131072. (=128MB).

I had to set the size big because I made ‘myinitrd.img’ bigger than 64MB. (unnecesarrily).

After this change, I built the kernel and ran as before,

../build/aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a72 -kernel ../../../LinuxDevDrv/linux-5.4.21/arch/arm64/boot/Image -initrd testinitrd/myinitrd.img --append "root=/dev/ram init=/init nokaslr" -m 2048M -nographic

And saw the right result. Hope this helps someone later.

[    3.886104] uart-pl011 9000000.pl011: no DMA platform data

[    3.904219] RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0

[    3.906344] RAMDISK: Loading 65536KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... /

[    4.496400] /

[    5.114023] /

[    5.731097] /

[    6.349303] /

[    6.966083] /

[    7.583881] /

[    8.202495] /

[    8.823923] done.

[   11.530393] EXT4-fs (ram0): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem

[   11.629543] EXT4-fs (ram0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

[   11.631033] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 1:0.

[   11.651897] devtmpfs: mounted

[   11.759683] Freeing unused kernel memory: 5120K

[   11.768919] Run /init as init process

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Thanks!

 

Chan Kim

 

From: ckim@etri.re.kr <ckim@etri.re.kr>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:28 PM
To: 'qemu-discuss' <qemu-discuss@nongnu.org>
Subject: end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) while booting linux on qemu

 

Hello,

 

I have found a good reference today (https://ibug.io/blog/2019/04/os-lab-1/ ) which shows how to build kernel and run it on qemu.

I followed it (but with aarch64-none-elf- for kernel build and aarch64-linux-gcc- for fake init process build) including making the example myinitrd.img file.

Myinitrd.img is a ramdisk image containing fake init program which repeatedly prints “Hello” every 1 second..

 

And myinitrd.img also contains device files that were made by these commands ( given inside the mounted image )

mkdir dev

sudo mknod dev/ram b 1 0

sudo mknod dev/console c 5 1

 

and when I tried 

qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a72 -kernel arch/arm64/boot/Image -initrd myinitrd.img --append "root=/dev/ram init=/init" -m 2048M -nographic

It started booting but at the end failed to mount myinitrd.img on ram device.

….

[    3.010354] Kernel Offset: 0x2d87d6c00000 from 0xffff800010000000

[    3.010844] PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfffff9ce00000000

[    3.011668] CPU features: 0x0002,20806000

[    3.012076] Memory Limit: none

[    3.013702] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) ]---

 

Could anyone tell me what can be wrong? (I tried changing ram device number and file name in vain).

Thanks!

 

Chan Kim