<div dir="ltr"><div>lilo. that's a dusty corner of what's left of my mind.<br><br></div>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.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's lilo. It autoconfigured the root UUID of the partition for that<br>
particular entry. The old, working entry uses append="root=/dev/sda2"<br>
while the new one is append="root=UUID=<long UUID>" where the UUID does<br>
match that reported by blkid for /dev/sda2.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 2014-06-24 12:56, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> So it's chocking trying to find the / partition. Verify the new kernel has<br>
> the identical grub line as the old one except for kernel and initrd<br>
> versions?<br>
> On Jun 24, 2014 3:51 PM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Pentium 2 is good for PAE. So now it's down to figuring out what else<br>
>> could be going wrong.<br>
>><br>
>> On 2014-06-24 06:23, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
>>> Good point, I'll need to check. That's what Debian itself is attempting<br>
>>> to install without user input. The running kernel is too old for pae<br>
>>> (2.6.39).<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 2014-06-24 02:30, JD wrote:<br>
>>>> s/par/pae/<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Autocorrect was too helpful.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On June 24, 2014 5:24:36 AM EDT, JD <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>> Does a p2 support par?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On June 23, 2014 10:05:23 PM EDT, Alex Carver<br>
>>>>> <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>>> I was just getting around to upgrading my older P2 system and Debian<br>
>>>>>> wants to install the kernel image 3.2.0-4-686-pae. However, it always<br>
>>>>>> panics at boot with the unable to mount root at unknown-block(0,0).<br>
>>>>>> I've searched quite a bit but the main suggestion (rebuilding<br>
>>>>>> initramfs)<br>
>>>>>> doesn't seem to work. Thoughts anyone?<br>
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