Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Panic booting 2.6.30 | From | David Ronis <> | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:17:04 -0400 |
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Hi Robert,
That was it. Including the appropriate driver in the kernel build worked like a charm.
Thanks for your help--Short and correct!
David
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 22:43 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > 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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