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 1KvvIo-0005q6-0p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41F39E0561; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188CDE0561 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740CC64F14 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.318 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.318 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.281, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4XcIRk85PJXx for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF22E64F16 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KvvIZ-0002an-Qm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:27 +0000 Received: from athedsl-304976.home.otenet.gr ([85.73.238.238]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:27 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-304976.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:48:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Error booting new kernel Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:48:19 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <9238e8de0810310741i40656ce2i9b9bf073cbbc2954@mail.gmail.com> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-304976.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <9238e8de0810310741i40656ce2i9b9bf073cbbc2954@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9c454f36-6f61-4b57-b0fb-43975932eb9b X-Archives-Hash: ebf422b58ac903373d6184cfdf313ad4 Marko Koci=C4=87 wrote: > I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. >=20 > 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. >=20 > The error message while booting is like this: >=20 > 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) >=20 >=20 > Note that in my lilo.conf I have root=3D/dev/hda7 line for all kernels. My guess is that you would need to specify /dev/sda7 instead.