RE: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9
Well, waking up an old thread here ... I'm seeing the same issue.
Clean install of woody/testing
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.10-686
Does its thing, warning about the lilo line. I put that in and rerun lilo.
reboot.
Fails on the root mount.
Ran mkinitrd -k -o /boot/initrd-2.4.10-686 /lib/modules/2.4.10-686 - that
left the work files in place in /tmp/mkinitrd.22994. Poking around in
there, the only module getting loaded is ext2 via loadmodules. Yet the
config-2.4.10-686 file shows that all the IDE stuff is modules, yet they
weren't getting installed into the etc/modules file.
I believe it should be loading these as modules - is this right ?
ide-mod
ext2
(Nope - just tried it. Changed the /etc/mkinitrd/modules file to include
ide-mod. No go)
What's weird is I have another system that worked OK. There were a couple
of boots where the root FS wasn't found properly, but it is now. I can
mount /boot/initrd-2.4.10-686 via loopback, and the loadmodules file there
is loading megaraid and ext2. This box obviously has a megaraid card in it.
The stock 2.2.19 kernel package has megaraid compiled in, so it wasn't the
modules list that was telling 2.4.10 to load it. How did it determine what
modules to load up ?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alejandro Diego Garin [mailto:linuxero2@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:19 AM
To: John Purser; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: 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
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Alejandro Diego Garin
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