On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:59:18PM +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: > 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. root=LABEL=/ seems to be implemented by RedHat specific patch. > > > > > 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 Sanity check: Are you _really_ using it? When you get the grub boot menu, press `e' and inspect what grub is about to execute. Sanity check: Is what you wrote the whole and unmodified content of your grub.conf? Because IIRC each menu section must end in `boot' command. Sanity check: grub.conf? My grub definitely calls it menu.lst > 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? It's not a matter of EXT3. If it was, the error would end in 03:05 (major:minor number of the device it failed to read). But since it ends in 00:00 it was not able to make sense from what was passed as root= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
