Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:43:14 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Panic booting 2.6.30 |
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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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