Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

From: Michael Tokarev
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 15:33:13 EST


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
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