Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Sat Jun 20 2009 - 00:43:00 EST


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.
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