Reference to this thread.
I had the same problem. On Redaht 8.0, I compiled ext3 and ide support in the kernel, and without
initrd. I was not able to boot.
After investigating, I realized, that Redhat has inserted following line in grub.conf file
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14smp ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
Which I had copied blindly. The system would panic failing to mount root fs.
I changed the about line to read
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14usb ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi
This time system booted ok with new kernel, and also mounted other partitions by there lable names.
This mean that unless you have initrd, you cannot have label for your root partition.
Usman
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Hi,
I tried to make a custom kernel with module versionning disabled, but my
custom kernel didn't boot showin the following message instead:
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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
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I did the compilation on RedHat 8.0 using the distro provided kernel
sources in /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14 under root account with the following
comands:
make xconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
The /boot/grub/grub.conf file was set for the custom curnel by the make script itself
Could someone tell me what I've done wrong and how to solve the problem.
Thanks!
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