Re: grub root=/dev/hd$v$n not root=LABEL=/ why

[Lior Kesos <lior@aduva.com>]

Pat LaVarre wrote:

> Aye, precisely ... me too!
>
> With the redhat.com kernels I have installed,
> root=LABEL=/ works, but with my kernel.org kernels,
> only root=/dev/hda2 works.
>  
Well I'm nopw stuck on the same problem but I've allready changed my 
grub.conf file to use /dev directly and I still get the error on boot:

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

now I'm using amy grub.conf looks like this -

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.8-20)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/hda5

title Red Hat Linux (2.5.72)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.5.72 ro root=/dev/hda5

The 2.4.8-20 which is the default works fine while the 72 panics with 
the error above.

prompt>grep EXT3 /usr/src/linux-2.5.72/.config
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
As you see I have ext3 compiled into the 72 so the way I look at it I 
don't realy need initrd -
what am I missing here?

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