Re: Testing to unstable
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable.
> I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot,
> the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root. I've tried
> a few things with mkinitrd, and fiddled with lilo. Modutils were upgraded
> with everything else, I thought to run a 2.4 kernel, the only gotcha was to
> make sure you upgrade modutils as well.
>
> Here is the exact text:
>
> request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
How did you install the kernel? Manually or using Debian kernel package
thingy?
I always install it manually and never had this problem so I'm assuming
it has to be Debian kernel package thingy that's at fault?? Not sure
though.
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