Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756990AbZFSUUy (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:20:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753340AbZFSUUq (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:20:46 -0400 Received: from torrent.CC.McGill.CA ([132.206.27.49]:43611 "EHLO torrent.cc.mcgill.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751683AbZFSUUq (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:20:46 -0400 Subject: Re: Panic booting 2.6.30 From: David Ronis Reply-To: ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca To: Justin Mattock Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1245439404.25076.7.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> <4A3BE7EA.4050800@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Department of Chemistry, McGill University Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:20:50 -0400 Message-Id: <1245442850.25076.11.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.27.3 X-PMX-Version: 5.4.2.338381, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2009.6.19.114543 X-McGill-WhereFrom: Internal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1552 Lines: 45 Thanks for the reply. I don't know how to do this with the crashed kernel, but in 2.6.26.5 the expected /dev/hda? entries are there, while /dev/sda? aren't. David On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 12:55 -0700, Justin Mattock wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:32 PM, 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 > > -- > > 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/ > > > > check /dev/hda* to see > if it renamed itself to /dev/sda* > (noticed this a few months ago with > 2.6.17(I think) to 2.6.24) > -- 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/