Re: Testing to unstable
From: Adam Majer To: Roderick Cummings CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Testing to unstable Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:19:15 -0600
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.
I installed the 2.4.17-1 kernel .deb for i686 that is in testing.
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