Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

[Justin Mattock]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Michael Tokarev<mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>

ahh.. that's what I did then
had old, then changed to new,
but didn't realize.
Thanks for clearing that up.

-- 
Justin P. Mattock
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