Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757681AbZFSVCW (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:02:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752709AbZFSVCO (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:02:14 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f214.google.com ([209.85.217.214]:63632 "EHLO mail-gx0-f214.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751908AbZFSVCO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:02:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aqeG+6zk6E76Yg8qIVVVeamE8D5nEyovZaatwNN/S+6LV/nOpHnAKYfD++zRDyeadH uUQmL9BYoOOsKWbvy6Q4Iatr0/Ak46WcbhjETCZfG+B9v/P+IgXVzfr7R1jSsHpJISJr pwPki6P7hGcwER7+xns+ueIesiEL3LZ6QgLV8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A3BF2FA.2010708@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <1245439404.25076.7.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> <4A3BE7EA.4050800@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4A3BF2FA.2010708@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:55:02 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Panic booting 2.6.30 From: Justin Mattock To: Michael Tokarev Cc: ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1540 Lines: 49 On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 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 >> >> 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 -- 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/