[plug] Kernel 2.4.22-1-k7 installed but

[Onno Benschop]

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 08:51, Laurie Anderson wrote:
>   Good morning,
>   Installed Debian kernel 2.4.22-1-k7 late yesterday everything looked fine
>   until I  did a reboot, this is what I got
> 
>       Linux VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02
>       Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>       Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>        spurious 8259A interupt: IRQ7.
> 
>   What did I do wrong & how do we perform a repair???
>   Do have a rescue & root disk for Debian Woody if they help.
>   Having a spare machine from which to work really pays off

For starters you should be able to boot with LinuxOLD. 

Likely you have some broken links in / that point to the wrong things in
/boot

Likely you need to update those, then re-run lilo

If you cannot start linuxold, then you can start the installer as a
rescue disk, make sure you set the right root, alternatively, start the
installer, run until the formatting the disk, then choose mount, mount
all the bits, then go to another terminal [CTRL-ALT-F2] and fix the
broken links.

Onno Benschop 

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