Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

[David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>]

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
>