From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Panic booting 2.6.30
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:43:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3C68E2.7000508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245439404.25076.7.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>
On 06/19/2009 01:23 PM, 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.
Make sure you configured in the proper IDE driver for your chipset.
Previously I believe the IDE driver would attach to unknown chipsets in
a crappy generic fashion, but I don't think it does anymore.
If that doesn't help, please post your kernel config and lspci output.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-20 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-19 19:23 David Ronis
2009-06-19 19:32 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-19 19:55 ` Justin Mattock
2009-06-19 20:20 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-19 20:55 ` Justin Mattock
2009-06-19 20:20 ` David Ronis
2009-06-19 20:19 ` David Ronis
2009-06-19 20:31 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-19 20:49 ` David Ronis
2009-06-19 20:55 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-20 4:43 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-06-23 15:17 ` David Ronis
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