From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754819AbZFST3w (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:29:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751495AbZFST3p (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:29:45 -0400 Received: from deluge.CC.McGill.CA ([132.206.27.50]:38635 "EHLO deluge.cc.mcgill.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbZFST3o (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:29:44 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 384 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:29:44 EDT Subject: Panic booting 2.6.30 From: David Ronis Reply-To: ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Department of Chemistry, McGill University Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:23:24 -0400 Message-Id: <1245439404.25076.7.camel@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.27.3 X-PMX-Version: 5.4.2.338381, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2009.6.19.114543 X-McGill-WhereFrom: Internal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: boot = /dev/hda lba32 message = /boot/boot_message.txt prompt timeout = 300 vga = normal # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /bzImage-2.6.30 root = /dev/hda2 label = Linux-2.6.30 read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /bzImage-2.6.26.5 root = /dev/hda2 label = Linux-2.6.26.5 read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /memtest86 root = /dev/hda2 label = memtest86 read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends Any ideas? Please CC me directly. Thanks in advance David