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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Panic booting 2.6.30
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:32:58 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3BE7EA.4050800@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245439404.25076.7.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>

David Ronis wrote:
> I've just upgraded an older machine (a P3 running slackware 11.0) from
> 2.6.26.5 to 2.6.30; the build was uneventful.  However, on reboot (using
> lilo) I get:
> 
> VSF:  Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available
> partions:     <====== nothing shows here...
> Kernel-Panic - not syncing.
> 
> I had rebooted with and without root=hda2.   The old kernel is still
> usable.
> 
> Lilo.conf looks like:

Add large-memory option to lilo.conf

/mjt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-19 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-19 19:23 Panic booting 2.6.30 David Ronis
2009-06-19 19:32 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2009-06-19 19:55   ` Justin Mattock
2009-06-19 20:20     ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-19 20:55       ` Justin Mattock
2009-06-19 20:20     ` David Ronis
2009-06-19 20:19   ` David Ronis
2009-06-19 20:31     ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-19 20:49       ` David Ronis
2009-06-19 20:55         ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-20  4:43 ` Robert Hancock
2009-06-23 15:17   ` David Ronis

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