linux-kernel - Re: Kernel panic with upgrade to 2.6.28

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Date:	Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:53:36 -0300
From:	"Sergio Luis" <eeeesti@...il.com>
To:	ronis@...ispc.chem.mcgill.ca
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel panic with upgrade to 2.6.28

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 3:42 PM, David Ronis
<ronis@...ispc.chem.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> I just upgraded from 2.6.27.8 or .10 to 2.6.28 on several machines.  On
> one, a Dell dimension 3000 with a dual-core pentium R chip,  2 Seagate
> ST340014A (/dev/hda with swap as partion 1 and root ext3 filesystem as
> partion 2 and b containing a windows partition) and running slackware
> 12.1, I get a kernel panic when trying to boot (the others boot fine);
> specifically, I get:
>
>        Cannot open root device "302" or unknown block(3,2).  Please
>        append a correct root=; here are the available partitions:
>
> No partitions are shown.  Manually adding root=/dev/hda2 to the lilo
> boot prompt doesn't help either.
>
> The 2.6.27.8 kernel boots fine.
>
> Any suggestions?  Please CC me directly.
>
> Thanks and Happy Holidays
>
> David
>
>

Hello,

please send your config from both 2.6.27.8 and 2.6.28 kernel. Also the
dmesg from the working kernel. It might help with finding out what's
going on.

Happy Holidays too.

Sergio.
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