Aye, precisely ... me too!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:
With the redhat.com kernels I have installed,
root=LABEL=/ works, but with my kernel.org kernels,
only root=/dev/hda2 works.
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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