Any help with the following would be much appreciated: I was attempting to update a kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.6.8 and it seems now that neither of the kernel links in the lilo menu will boot. Both exit with the same kernel panic message and the output up to that point appears to be identical. This output makes mention of NTFS drivers, ACPI, powerNOW and other things that I believe mean I'm looking at output from the 2.6.8 kernel. I think I've somehow managed to point both the links in lilo at the new kernel. Is there anything that can be done, short of reinstalling debian from CD (and presumably losing all data that way?)
The exit error message is (after some stuff mentioning ACPI) : .... VFS: Cannot open root device "305" or unknown-block(3,5) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,5) More details: I obtained 2.6.8 kernel source via apt-get and included support for EXT3 filesystem, changed the processor type to AMD Athlon, NTFS support, SCSI emulation, ACPI and processor clock scaling in menuconfig. I made a .deb with make-kpkg and installed it with dpkg -i. I answered yes to the question resulting from dpkg -i about making modifications to lilo so that the new kernel would be available to boot. After this I checked that /vmlinuz was pointing at the new kernel and looked at /etc/lilo.conf. The "label" for the stanza associated with the /vmlinuz link said "Linux_2.6.6" (a previous kernel installation failure) and I changed the text of the label to "linux_2.6.8", but nothing else in /etc/lilo.conf. After this modification to /etc/lilo.conf I ran lilo, which added the various boot options OK, but produced a warning message that I did not understand containing the word block and some memory addresses. Since I believed that the old 2.2.20 link would be OK to boot, I proceeded to power down and try to boot the new kernel, with the above-described failure. This is on an HP Athlon laptop. Help very much appreciated! Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
