From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Error booting new kernel
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:48:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gef5rj$95c$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9238e8de0810310741i40656ce2i9b9bf073cbbc2954@mail.gmail.com>
Marko Kocić 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=" 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=/dev/hda7 line for all kernels.
My guess is that you would need to specify /dev/sda7 instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 14:41 [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel Marko Kocić
2008-10-31 14:44 ` deface
2008-10-31 14:48 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2008-10-31 15:04 ` James
2008-11-03 7:48 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-03 7:51 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-03 12:07 ` David Relson
2008-11-03 12:34 ` Dirk Heinrichs
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