[ale] kernel 3.2 panics

[Alex Carver]

At the moment there's no way to use a live CD (no CD drive).  I'm going
to try one of the non-PAE images and see if that boots.  If so it's just
a PAE issue, if not then it's a missing kernel driver issue.

On 2014-06-26 05:36, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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?