Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754691AbZFSTdJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:33:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752076AbZFSTc6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:32:58 -0400 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([81.13.33.159]:41808 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbZFSTc5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:32:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4A3BE7EA.4050800@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:32:58 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Panic booting 2.6.30 References: <1245439404.25076.7.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <1245439404.25076.7.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 23 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/