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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:11:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705111711.06948.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4644803D.6000005@ergolight-sw.com>

On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote:
> Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the
> problem in a glance).
>
>
> Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8

OK, you seem to have run into the "Lets rip IDE out of the kernel and 
replace it with ATA" thing that happened in 2.6.18...

In menuconfig , under Drivers, there's a menu a little bit below the 
IDE?MFM stuff. It's called SATA/PATA or similar. You will find 
appropriate settings for your hardware there. I can't elabortae as I 
don't know what you have, but you disk settings seem to be IDE


> Attached the panic message:
>
>
> VFS: cannot open root  device sda1 or unknown block (0,0)
>
> please append a correct "root=" boot option.
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -
> block (0,0)

Please, please, please always quote the correct error messages and leave 
your personal evaluation out of it. See how the above says absolutely 
nothing about ext3? But your original post was all about that, and 
without the actual error and .config, we would have spent hours trying 
to get your fs working, when in fault it is not faulty...



-- 
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?

Alan McKinnon
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11 10:06 [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8 David Harel
2007-05-11 11:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-11 14:39   ` David Harel
2007-05-11 14:52     ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-11 15:11     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2007-05-12 16:22       ` David Harel
2007-05-12 18:45         ` Neil Walker
2007-05-12 19:10           ` David Harel
2007-05-12 19:47           ` Graham Murray
     [not found]             ` <46461CE8.2080900@ergolight-sw.com>
2007-05-12 21:44               ` Graham Murray
2007-05-13  6:10                 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-13 21:13                   ` Neil Walker
2007-05-13 21:38                     ` Graham Murray
2007-05-14  7:19                       ` Neil Walker
2007-05-15 17:37                         ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-05-15 23:30                           ` Neil Walker
2007-05-15 23:40                             ` Karl Haines
2007-05-16  5:44                               ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-05-16 13:59                               ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 14:21                                 ` Dale
2007-05-16 14:44                                   ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-16 14:54                                     ` Dale
2007-05-16 21:10                                       ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-16 21:33                                         ` Dale
2007-05-16 22:01                                           ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-16 22:36                                             ` Dale
2007-05-17  9:04                                               ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-17 14:55                                                 ` Dale
2007-05-18 10:51                                                   ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 15:36                                   ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 19:43                                     ` Dale
2007-05-16 20:57                                       ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 21:35                                         ` Dale
2007-05-11 15:33     ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-11 12:24 ` Dirk Heinrichs

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