lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <dd18b0c30906191255h7d0c6bcfx58f32d4b34e13c34@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:55:20 -0700
From:	Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Cc:	ronis@...ispc.chem.mcgill.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Panic booting 2.6.30

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Michael Tokarev<mjt@....msk.ru> wrote:
> David Ronis wrote:
>>
>> I've just upgraded an older machine (a P3 running slackware 11.0) from
>> 2.6.26.5 to 2.6.30; the build was uneventful.  However, on reboot (using
>> lilo) I get:
>>
>> VSF:  Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0)
>> Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available
>> partions:     <====== nothing shows here...
>> Kernel-Panic - not syncing.
>>
>> I had rebooted with and without root=hda2.   The old kernel is still
>> usable.
>>
>> Lilo.conf looks like:
>
> Add large-memory option to lilo.conf
>
> /mjt
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>

check  /dev/hda*  to see
if it renamed itself to /dev/sda*
(noticed this a few months ago with
2.6.17(I think) to 2.6.24)

-- 
Justin P. Mattock
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ