[plug] Kernel 2.4.22-1-k7 installed but

[Laurie Anderson]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 09:36:07 +1100
Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> 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 
> 
>
  Onno Benschop,
  Found I was unable to boot with LinuxOLD
  Did all as you suggested but somehow the OS has vanished so I recon we start over
  simpley have no Idea what happened
  If I am lucky (a long shot)I may have only lost the OS

  Laurie