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SubjectRe: Panic booting 2.6.30
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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