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 1KvvYa-0007Jf-TD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:05:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2359E003C; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.nexicom.net (smtp1.nexicom.net [216.168.96.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD102E003C for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lockie.ca (dyn-dsl-mb-66-79-239-235.nexicom.net [66.79.239.235]) by smtp.nexicom.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m9VF4ueg026777 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:04:57 -0500 Received: by mail.lockie.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 0780DCABAC; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on lockie2 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.2.3 Received: from www.lockie.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lockie.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF87CAB75 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 207.210.33.66 (SquirrelMail authenticated user bjlockie) by www.lockie.ca with HTTP; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9238e8de0810310741i40656ce2i9b9bf073cbbc2954@mail.gmail.com> References: <9238e8de0810310741i40656ce2i9b9bf073cbbc2954@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel From: "James" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [SVN] 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 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 626a45a0-3a7c-460a-afdb-239378cc72f0 X-Archives-Hash: 2bf99a72a7c6359946ce4de1439dadf1 On Fri, October 31, 2008 10:41 am, 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 That filesystem support is not compiled in the kernel?