Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
OK, but I still have the LinuxOLD entry in my LILO menu. Since I'm
running stock kernels, this should be starting my previous kernel
anytime. So, I chose the option, and it booted until it had to mount the
root fs. There I got a kernel panic: can't mount root fs. (No clear
reason was mentioned...) Oops. My root fs is /dev/hda6, which is an ext3
fs. Even specifying
LinuxOLD root=/dev/hda6
didn't help.
OK, problem is solved, thanks to Mike Dornberger (and sorry for not
checking this myself, I remembered it worked before, so I assumed it was
OK):
I forgot this line in my lilo.conf:
initrd=/initrd.img.old
I remember people using a stock kernel for the first time and having
this problem too. It seems that at least some older version of the
installation scripts do not adjust the lilo.conf correctly. Someone
please check if this is done properly now (i.e. addition of the initrd
option).
So, I took my older (Woody-beta) installation cd and booted with "rescue
root=/dev/hda6". Also, this didn't work out: again a kernel panic,
because it can't mount the root fs... This time there was some error
about "unsupported optional features".
Any idea about this then?
Best regards,
Manuel Bilderbeek
