[PLUG] Upgrading from Woody to Sarge

Richard C. Steffens rsteff.l at comcast.net
Thu Aug 19 08:48:01 UTC 2004


I successfully installed Debian Woody on this machine. I asked some 
other folks for advice on getting my HP SureStore CD burner working and 
learned that the 2.6 kernel would deal with it without having to make it 
seem like a SCSI device. So, I've been trying to upgrade the kernel for 
a few weeks now, and have run into a problem they were unable to solve.

I have a 2.6.7 kernel compiled and I have lilo configured to the point 
where I get a menu when I boot. If I select the 2.2.20 kernel the system 
boots just fine. If I select the 2.6.7 kernel, I get the following message:

      VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1)
      Please append a correct "root=" boot option.

In lilo.conf I have:

      boot=/dev/hda
      root=/dev/hda1

Any ideas on where to start looking?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens
http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/




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