Hi Dave, Thanks for the reply. I've posted a jpg of the last screen at http://ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca/ronis/images/boot_crash.jpg Note the material before the backtrace. The disks and partitions seem correct. David On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 10:36 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > David Ronis wrote: > > I've just tried to upgrade from a slackware-2.6.37.6-huge (most drivers > > are enabled at least as modules) to 2.6.39.3, built locally. The > > resulting kernel won't boot (generating an oops). What I see on the > > console is a list of the various disk partitions (sd driver) and then a > > complaint about not being able to mount /dev/root. (The older kernel > > works fine-the disks using the ata_pixx driver). > > > > My suspicion is that I've misconfigured the kernel. Any suggestions? > > Show the detail log of the oops?! Use a photo if necessary. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
