Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

[Michael Tokarev]

Justin Mattock wrote:
> 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
>
> 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
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