SOLVED! Re: HELP! Can't boot no more - When Kernel Upgrades Go Bad
just for the record, and searchers to follow...
thanks to all those who mailed me back about his one, a few things needed doing.
The system was booted using the install cdrom and the command
rescue root=/dev/sda1 (ide drives of course would use /dev/hda1)
as far as i can tell the "bunk" kernels are reiser only at the moment. so having used his apt lines to upgrade the appropriate utilities i downloaded the kernel image from testing and used
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.6-686_2.4.6-1_i386.deb
to install it.
then the other gotcha was having to add the following line into LILO after the vmliniz stanza
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.6-686
ran lilo
then rebooted, and now everything is groovy!
thanks for the help of those who did.
John
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At 10:09 AM 7/25/01 +0000, John Griffiths wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>hoping someone can help me here
>
>I followed the instructions on
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>http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
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>for upgrading 2.2r3 to the 2.4 kernel.
>
>I thought i'd followed the isntructions to the letter,
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>but when i rebooted all seemed well until halfway through the reboot when it stopped.
>
>the last "good" line in the bootup says
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>Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
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>then we get to the bad stuff
>
>request_module[block-major-8: Root fs not mounted
>VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01
>Please append a correct "root=" bot option
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
>
>and that's where it ends.
>
>any help to either
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>a) get the system as-is to boot
>
>or
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>b) re-install and get 2.4 pon the "right way" would be appreciated.
>
>I'd be very grateful for any help
>
>John
>
>
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