Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
Version: 2.6.8-12
Severity: normal
My current 2.6.6 kernel boots and runs OK on my Toshiba Tecra S1
laptop. But when I try to boot the 2.6.8 (or 2.6.10) kernel the
bootstrap fails early on like this:
RAMDISK: Loading 4540 blocks [1 disk] into ramdisk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda5" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
At that point the console freezes (shift pg-up doesn't work) until the
kernel eventually reboots.
Here are the relevant /boot/menu/grub/menu.lst entries:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro panic=60
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.6-1-686
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro panic=60
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.6-1-686
savedefault
boot
Here is the output from fdisk /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3876 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 17 128488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 18 2320 17410648+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 2321 2456 1028160 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4 2457 3876 10735200 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2457 3805 10198408+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 3806 3876 536728+ 82 Linux swap
I hope you can help, as I really want to be able to use a more kernel
to see if it fixes some of the ACPI problems which I have with 2.6.6.
Thanks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.77 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
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