[ale] kernel 3.2 panics

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Tue Jun 24 16:27:21 EDT 2014


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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