On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:49:19AM -0700, Pat LaVarre wrote: > > From: Jan Hudec [mailto:bulb@ucw.cz] ... > > panic ... ends in 00:00 ... > > was not able to make sense > > from what was passed as root= > > Cogent, helpful, thanks again. > > > > 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. > > Me I'm slow to accept the theory of a Red Hat patch > because root=LABEL=/ does work when I build > kernel.org source almost as is. I only add a .config > from Red Hat, and I build in a Red Hat Linux. > > I have not yet modified my copy of the kernel.org > source in any other way. Well, I did a brief lookup on linux-kernel list and it seems, that the feature is not implemented in kernel, but in RedHat initrd (after all, it is the RightWay to do it there). > > Sanity check ... Sanity check ... Sanity check ... > > Thanks for finding the time to ask. To my newbie > eye, all these checks pass, I'm curious to know if > you agree. Specifically I see: > > > IIRC each menu section must end > > in `boot' command ... > > The string "boot" appears in three lines, but never > as a command. I quote: > > $ sudo grep -i boot /boot/grub/grub.conf > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means > that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to > /boot/, eg. > #boot=/dev/hda > $ Grub should imply it at the end of menu entry. > > Sanity check: Are you _really_ using it? > > When you get the grub boot menu, > > press `e' and inspect what grub is about to execute. > > Diff by eye says same. Pressing e to edit the kernel > line and later b to try the edited lines panics if > "root=LABEL=/" and works if "root=/dev/hda2". That definitely means, that grub is doing it's job right. The fact the first does not means, that kernel can't figure out what "LABEL=/" means. It seems it is really implemented in the initrd. That means that you have to boot with /dev/hd?? when booting without initrd. (I don't know, what is in redhat initrd - if it's a shell script, you might try to check it). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
