Hello there,
It ssems that all new pre-patched RH kernels using LABELs to mark
partitions in your lilo.conf or grub.conf.
Use df -k to find the /dev/hd* file of your / (root) partition. Change
the root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/hd*X (fro example root=/dev/hda3) in lilo
or grub kernel options.
Stas@
Akash Malhotra wrote:
Hi ALL
I am new in the field of customization of kernel.
I am trying to build custom kernel for redhat 8. I did everystep given in
the custoning kernel section of REDHAT 8 maunal and i dint get any errors.
rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS.kernel-source*
ln -l /usr/src/linux-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux
make dep
make
make bzImage
make modules
make install
make modules_install
But when i restarted my system using my customized kernel my system hangs
giving this problem
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
And my system hangs.
ANy help is appreciated in this regard
-Akash
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