From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvvEU-0005ZK-H6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:44:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2394E04CC; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alpha.fluxlabs.net (alpha.fluxlabs.net [75.126.60.66]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB0BE04CC for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-68-59-92-70.hsd1.fl.comcast.net ([68.59.92.70] helo=[10.0.1.105]) by alpha.fluxlabs.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvvET-0001ez-1R for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:43:50 -0500 Message-ID: <490B19BB.6030606@uberpenguin.net> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:44:11 -0500 From: deface User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080914) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel References: <9238e8de0810310741i40656ce2i9b9bf073cbbc2954@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9238e8de0810310741i40656ce2i9b9bf073cbbc2954@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - alpha.fluxlabs.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - uberpenguin.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b0d17e4d-f709-47b2-b86a-a472ce29458e X-Archives-Hash: 70c94ea9bd9234be195bc04a2a7cde3a Marko Koci=C4=87 wrote: > I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. > > After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not > able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, > but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work > again. > > The error message while booting is like this: > > Using IPI shortcut mode > BIOS EDD facility v 0.16 2004-Jul-25 1 devices found > VFS: Cannot open root device "307" on unknown-block(3,7) > Please append a correct "root=3D" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- > block(3,7) > > > Note that in my lilo.conf I have root=3D/dev/hda7 line for all kernels. > > Thanks for any suggestion, > Marko > > =20 The 2 main things to look for are File System support & chipset. did you=20 copy your old .config and run a make oldconfig ? Shouldn't have been much to=20 modify, if any. deface