Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

From: David Ronis
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 16:19:23 EST


Thanks for the reply. I added large-memory to lilo.conf, reran lilo,
and rebooted. I get the same problem, except now the unknown-block was
3,2. when I boot without specifying root=hda2, with root=hda2 I get the
same behavior.

David

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:32 +0400, Michael Tokarev 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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