Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 11:39, John Purser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I ran:
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686
>
> At this point I got a warning to add this line to my /etc/lilo.conf
> initrd=/boot/initrd
>
> I did and ran:
>
> lilo
> apt-get install kernel-image2.4.9-686
>
> And rebooted.
>
> Now it hangs during boot with this message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
> This a test machine so I don't mind blowing it away and re-installing woody
> again if I have to but is there another way? And what are the steps
> necessary to upgrading to 2.4 on woody? I've seen the .deb for upgrading
> potato to 2.4, should I have used that?
What does lilo.conf look like?
ls -al of / and ls -al of /boot would probably be helpfull in debugging.
--mike
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