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From: James <bjlockie@××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:05:01
Message-Id: b62638a22fdd31394e4cf38da8be15c7.squirrel@www.lockie.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel by "Marko Kocić"
1 On Fri, October 31, 2008 10:41 am, Marko Kocić wrote:
2 > I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel.
3 >
4 >
5 > After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not
6 > able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but
7 > couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again.
8 >
9 > The error message while booting is like this:
10 >
11 >
12 > Using IPI shortcut mode
13 > BIOS EDD facility v 0.16 2004-Jul-25 1 devices found
14 > VFS: Cannot open root device "307" on unknown-block(3,7)
15 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
16 > partitions:
17 > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-
18 > block(3,7)
19 >
20 >
21 > Note that in my lilo.conf I have root=/dev/hda7 line for all kernels.
22 >
23 >
24 > Thanks for any suggestion,
25 > Marko
26
27 That filesystem support is not compiled in the kernel?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>