[ale] kernel 3.2 panics

[Jim Kinney]

Ah. Yes. Forgot the pae part. Good plan.
On Jun 26, 2014 7:14 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> At the moment there's no way to use a live CD (no CD drive).  I'm going
> to try one of the non-PAE images and see if that boots.  If so it's just
> a PAE issue, if not then it's a missing kernel driver issue.
>
> On 2014-06-26 05:36, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Well crud. So old kernel finds root but new kernel doesn't. Really
> sounding
> > like a missing driver issue now. You'll need to tear into both initrd
> > systems or compile your own kernel from scratch.
> >
> > Have you tried a live CD? If it can find your hard drive then use its
> > kernel and initrd .
> > On Jun 26, 2014 12:30 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Nope, didn't work.  Crashed in the same place with the same error about
> >> not being able to find root.
> >>
> >> On 2014-06-24 13:40, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>> lilo. that's a dusty corner of what's left of my mind.
> >>>
> >>> OK. so change the new kernel entry to be /dev/sda2 instead of the UUID
> >> and
> >>> rerun liloconfig and try again on the boot. It's possible the new
> kernel
> >>> really can't use the UUID and that's why it's choking.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It's lilo.  It autoconfigured the root UUID of the partition for that
> >>>> particular entry.  The old, working entry uses append="root=/dev/sda2"
> >>>> while the new one is append="root=UUID=<long UUID>" where the UUID
> does
> >>>> match that reported by blkid for /dev/sda2.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2014-06-24 12:56, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>>>> So it's chocking trying to find the / partition. Verify the new
> kernel
> >>>> has
> >>>>> the identical grub line as the old one except for kernel and initrd
> >>>>> versions?
> >>>>> On Jun 24, 2014 3:51 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Pentium 2 is good for PAE.  So now it's down to figuring out what
> else
> >>>>>> could be going wrong.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 2014-06-24 06:23, Alex Carver wrote:
> >>>>>>> Good point, I'll need to check.  That's what Debian itself is
> >>>> attempting
> >>>>>>> to install without user input.  The running kernel is too old for
> pae
> >>>>>>> (2.6.39).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 2014-06-24 02:30, JD wrote:
> >>>>>>>> s/par/pae/
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Autocorrect was too helpful.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On June 24, 2014 5:24:36 AM EDT, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Does a p2 support par?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On June 23, 2014 10:05:23 PM EDT, Alex Carver
> >>>>>>>>> <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> I was just getting around to upgrading my older P2 system and
> >> Debian
> >>>>>>>>>> wants to install the kernel image 3.2.0-4-686-pae.  However, it
> >>>> always
> >>>>>>>>>> panics at boot with the unable to mount root at
> >> unknown-block(0,0).
> >>>>>>>>>> I've searched quite a bit but the main suggestion (rebuilding
> >>>>>>>>>> initramfs)
> >>>>>>>>>> doesn't seem to work.  Thoughts anyone?
>
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