[ale] kernel 3.2 panics

[Jim Kinney]

Well crud. So old kernel finds root but new kernel doesn't. Really sounding
like a missing driver issue now. You'll need to tear into both initrd
systems or compile your own kernel from scratch.

Have you tried a live CD? If it can find your hard drive then use its
kernel and initrd .
On Jun 26, 2014 12:30 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> Nope, didn't work.  Crashed in the same place with the same error about
> not being able to find root.
>
> On 2014-06-24 13:40, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > lilo. that's a dusty corner of what's left of my mind.
> >
> > OK. so change the new kernel entry to be /dev/sda2 instead of the UUID
> and
> > rerun liloconfig and try again on the boot. It's possible the new kernel
> > really can't use the UUID and that's why it's choking.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> It's lilo.  It autoconfigured the root UUID of the partition for that
> >> particular entry.  The old, working entry uses append="root=/dev/sda2"
> >> while the new one is append="root=UUID=<long UUID>" where the UUID does
> >> match that reported by blkid for /dev/sda2.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2014-06-24 12:56, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>> So it's chocking trying to find the / partition. Verify the new kernel
> >> has
> >>> the identical grub line as the old one except for kernel and initrd
> >>> versions?
> >>> On Jun 24, 2014 3:51 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Pentium 2 is good for PAE.  So now it's down to figuring out what else
> >>>> could be going wrong.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2014-06-24 06:23, Alex Carver wrote:
> >>>>> Good point, I'll need to check.  That's what Debian itself is
> >> attempting
> >>>>> to install without user input.  The running kernel is too old for pae
> >>>>> (2.6.39).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 2014-06-24 02:30, JD wrote:
> >>>>>> s/par/pae/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Autocorrect was too helpful.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On June 24, 2014 5:24:36 AM EDT, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> Does a p2 support par?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On June 23, 2014 10:05:23 PM EDT, Alex Carver
> >>>>>>> <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> I was just getting around to upgrading my older P2 system and
> Debian
> >>>>>>>> wants to install the kernel image 3.2.0-4-686-pae.  However, it
> >> always
> >>>>>>>> panics at boot with the unable to mount root at
> unknown-block(0,0).
> >>>>>>>> I've searched quite a bit but the main suggestion (rebuilding
> >>>>>>>> initramfs)
> >>>>>>>> doesn't seem to work.  Thoughts anyone?
>
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