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Beat Meier | 4 Jul 2012 20:00
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Voyage-0.8.5 not anymore booting with lilo!

Hello

Voyage 0.8.5 lilo installation does not work anymore.
Just installed new installation not upgrade of voyage-0.8.5 on alix 
plattform.
Problem is kernel labeling with space does not work with lilo only with 
grub.
But even with correcting this root is not found.
Error is:

[    0.602598] Root-NFS: no NFS server address
[    0.604197] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
[    0.605763] VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=ROOT_FS" or 
unknown-block(2,0)
[    0.606481] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the 
available partitions:
[    0.607591] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
on unknown-block(2,0)
[    0.608394] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.17-voyage #1
[    0.609432] Call Trace:
[    0.610839]  [<c12b99db>] panic+0x5a/0x14b
[    0.612185]  [<c13cbb3e>] mount_block_root+0x15f/0x173
[    0.612660]  [<c108ffb7>] ? sys_mknod+0x13/0x15
[    0.614339]  [<c13cb1df>] ? parse_early_options+0x1c/0x1c
[    0.615571]  [<c13cbc14>] mount_root+0xc2/0xcc
[    0.616939]  [<c13cc63d>] ? initrd_load+0x2be/0x2c8
[    0.617604]  [<c13cb1df>] ? parse_early_options+0x1c/0x1c
[    0.618830]  [<c13cbd5e>] prepare_namespace+0x140/0x171
[    0.619532]  [<c13cb2d0>] kernel_init+0xf1/0xfd
[    0.621161]  [<c12bcbf6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd
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John Coltrane | 4 Jul 2012 20:24

Re: Voyage-0.8.5 not anymore booting with lilo!

Hi Beat,

uuh, lilo, it's about 10 years or so I had used it.

As far as I can remember you have to actualize the list of blocks where
the kernel resides (every time you have tinkered with the kernel). May
be a simple "lilo -v" does this, but you should have a look inside
lilo's manpage.

Why can't you use grub ?

Regarding initrd, if you have a kernel where all device drivers and
other kernel modules mandatory for booting are statically linked in (not
modules !), you do not need a initrd.

cheers, John

On 07/04/2012 08:00 PM, Beat Meier wrote:
> Hello
>
> Voyage 0.8.5 lilo installation does not work anymore.
> Just installed new installation not upgrade of voyage-0.8.5 on alix
> plattform.
> Problem is kernel labeling with space does not work with lilo only
> with grub.
> But even with correcting this root is not found.
> Error is:
>
> [    0.602598] Root-NFS: no NFS server address
> [    0.604197] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
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Beat Meier | 5 Jul 2012 00:12
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Re: Voyage-0.8.5 not anymore booting with lilo!

John

I now lilo is old but I like it :-) Until voyage-0.8 there was no problem.
It seems that voyage kernel does not have anymore ext3 built in which in my
opinion is bad because it's the only which could be missing to mount 
root since 0.6 or so
but this it not the actual problem I have...

Greetings

Beat

On 07/04/2012 03:24 PM, John Coltrane wrote:
> Hi Beat,
>
> uuh, lilo, it's about 10 years or so I had used it.
>
> As far as I can remember you have to actualize the list of blocks where
> the kernel resides (every time you have tinkered with the kernel). May
> be a simple "lilo -v" does this, but you should have a look inside
> lilo's manpage.
>
> Why can't you use grub ?
>
> Regarding initrd, if you have a kernel where all device drivers and
> other kernel modules mandatory for booting are statically linked in (not
> modules !), you do not need a initrd.
>
> cheers, John
>
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