Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

[Justin Mattock]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Michael Tokarev<mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
> /mjt
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check  /dev/hda*  to see
if it renamed itself to /dev/sda*
(noticed this a few months ago with
2.6.17(I think) to 2.6.24)

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Justin P. Mattock
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