Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Justin Mattock wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Michael Tokarev<mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> check  /dev/hda*  to see
> if it renamed itself to /dev/sda*

It cant "rename itself".

The difference between sd* and hd* is different driver for the
controller - either old good ide code (like piix) - that's hd*,
or libata-based code (ata_piix).  Which one is compiled into
your kernel or gets loaded by initrd is controlled by you, not
by kernel or drivers.

/mjt