Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 13:39, John Purser wrote:
>
> 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?
>
I had the same problem yesterday and I solved just adding this line
in my lilo.conf
image=/vmlinuz
label=debian
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-k6 # <----------- this line
root=/dev/hda2
next #lilo
and reboot....
cheers
--
Alejandro Diego Garin
GNU/Linux user #151577 counter.li.org
Licq #2502623
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