On Thursday 15 November 2012 20:42:03 alex lupu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In trying to catch up with the Joneses, I built a new
> machine around the latest i7 Ivy Bridge processor.
> As a quick and dirty start, I just moved the BLFS hard drive from my
> "standard" machine, intel E8400, kernel 3.6.1, to the new box.
> The two machines have the same basic, simple configuration,
> a hard drive (=< 160G) and an optical one.
> Obviously, I didn't expect instant smooth sailing on such a
> heavy-handed "upgrade" but this really has hit me hard:
>
> <<
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or known-block(0,0):
> error -6
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option:
> here are the available partitions:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.6.1 #1
> Call trace:
> [.......] ? panic ...
> ...
>
>
> Comments:
> 1. My little DOS partition (sda1) works as nicely as before.
> 2. A Knoppix CD (7.0.4, kernel 3.4.9) works just fine on the
> new machine too. Most discouraging.
> An 'fdisk -l' shows my drive as clean as before (as "sda3").
> 3. I tried another drive (which works identically on my old
> E8400 rig) and it exhibits the same behavior on the new one.
> 4. I went through a same type nightmare a few years ago under kinda
> similar circumstances. The kernel developers had changed drive
> names on me - from, say "hda3" to "sda3" so when I connected the
> "old" hda hard drive on a new kernel similar panic ensued.
> I fondly remember everybody got involved to help me (including
> Mr. Beekmans) and finally we got it solved (after a few drops of blood).
>
> Keeping the similarity intact, _in retrospect_, a simple kick
> in my behind (a "hint", as they say) should've been enough:
> "Hey dummy! Why don't you watch the 11 o'clock news !?:
> _everybody_ knows that the drive names have changed from
> "hd.." to "sd.." (for your own good!) !!!"
> 5. Consequently, if a generous soul can just offer a similar hint,
> in this instance, I'll be much appreciative:
> "Hey dummy! Don't you know that when you move to Ivy Bridge
> and H77, you have to change/add in 'xxxxxx' (kernel configuration?)
> this and that for your system to boot up at all!!!"
> Then I hope to be able to do my own heavy lifting from there on.
>
check if /etc/fstab us edited correctly
if so
you probably need to re-install your bootloader grub (or less likely lilo)'
If so its best to do it via a liveCD in chroot.
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