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<h1>Linux Kernel Module Cheat</h1>
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<h4 id="not-syncing-vfs"><a class="anchor" href="#not-syncing-vfs"></a><a class="link" href="#not-syncing-vfs">17.6.5. not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Let&#8217;s learn how to diagnose problems with the root filesystem not being found. TODO add a sample panic error message for each error type:</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/41930/kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block0-0/1048477#1048477" class="bare">https://askubuntu.com/questions/41930/kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block0-0/1048477#1048477</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is the diagnosis procedure.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>First, if we remove the following options from the our kernel build:</p>
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<pre>CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y</pre>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>we get a message like this:</p>
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<pre>&lt;4&gt;[ 0.541708] VFS: Cannot open root device "vda" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.542035] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
&lt;0&gt;[ 0.542562] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)</pre>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>From the message, we notice that the kernel sees a disk of some sort (vda means a virtio disk), but it could not open it.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This means that the kernel cannot properly read any bytes from the disk.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And afterwards, it has an useless message <code>here are the available partitions:</code>, but of course we have no available partitions, the list is empty, because the kernel cannot even read bytes from the disk, so it definitely cannot understand its filesystems.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This can indicate basically two things:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>on real hardware, it could mean that the hardware is broken. Kind of hard on emulators ;-)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>you didn&#8217;t configure the kernel with the option that enables it to read from that kind of disk.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In our case, disks are virtio devices that QEMU exposes to the guest kernel. This is why removing the options:</p>
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<div class="content">
<pre>CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y</pre>
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</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>led to this error.</p>
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</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Now, let&#8217;s restore the previously removed virtio options, and instead remove:</p>
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<pre>CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y</pre>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This time, the kernel will be able to read bytes from the device. But it won&#8217;t be able to read files from the filesystem, because our filesystem is in ext4 format.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore, this time the error message looks like this:</p>
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<pre>&lt;4&gt;[ 0.585296] List of all partitions:
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.585913] fe00 524288 vda
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.586123] driver: virtio_blk
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.586471] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.586497] squashfs
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.586724]
&lt;0&gt;[ 0.587360] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(254,0)</pre>
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</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In this case, we see that the kernel did manage to read from the <code>vda</code> disk! It even told us how: by using the <code>driver: virtio_blk</code>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, it then went through the list of all filesystem types it knows how to read files from, in our case just <code>squashf</code>, and none of those worked, because our partition is an ext4 partition.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Finally, the last possible error is that we simply passed the wrong <code>root=</code> <a href="kernel-command-line-parameters.html">kernel CLI option</a>. For example, if we hack our command to pass:</p>
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<pre>root=/dev/vda2</pre>
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</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which does not even exist since <code>/dev/vda</code> is a raw non-partitioned ext4 image, then boot fails with a message:</p>
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<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>&lt;4&gt;[ 0.608475] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.609563] fe00 524288 vda
&lt;4&gt;[ 0.609723] driver: virtio_blk
&lt;0&gt;[ 0.610433] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(254,2)</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This one is easy, because the kernel tells us clearly which partitions it would have been able to understand. In our case <code>/dev/vda</code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once all those problems are solved, in the working setup, we finally see something like:</p>
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<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>&lt;6&gt;[ 0.636129] EXT4-fs (vda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
&lt;6&gt;[ 0.636700] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 254:0.</pre>
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</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Tested on LKMC 863a373a30cd3c7982e3e453c4153f85133b17a9, Linux kernel 5.4.3.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/41930/kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block0-0/1048477#1048477" class="bare">https://askubuntu.com/questions/41930/kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block0-0/1048477#1048477</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/414655/not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block0-0/603197#603197" class="bare">https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/414655/not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block0-0/603197#603197</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63277677/i-meet-a-problem-when-i-encountered-in-the-fs-mode-of-running-gem5/63278487#63278487" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63277677/i-meet-a-problem-when-i-encountered-in-the-fs-mode-of-running-gem5/63278487#63278487</a> summary only</p>
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