Strange problems when upgrading kernel

ne... akabi at speakeasy.net
Sat Jan 10 14:31:17 UTC 2004


On Jan 10, 2004 at 04:19, Alexandre Strube in a soothing rage wrote:

>Hello friends,
[...]

>After the boot, the system would not boot anymore, with 2.4.22.2140 or
>2.6.1.?? . The message follows:
>
>Loading ext3.o module
>Mounting /proc filesystem
>Mounting /sysfs
>Mount: error 19 mounting sysfs
>Creating block devices
>VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
In the past, this has been a sign of a bad mkinitrd. I use
mkinitrd-3.5.17-1. You may need mkinitrd-3.5.14 or mkinitrd-3.5.15.

>Sound is gone also. I was using ALSA, but now this happens:
>
>[root at casa archives]# modprobe snd-via82xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe
>snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
>/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2140.nptl/kernel/sound/snd.o: unresolved symbol
>schedule_work
Get the updated rpms from freshrpms. For each kernel upgrade you do,
you need to update the kernel-alsa rpms as well.

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