-----Original Message----- From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 8:12 PM To: Abhijit Pawar Cc: 'Kernel Newbies' Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Panic ! Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 19:49 +0530, Abhijit Pawar wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using Redhat 9.0 Linux with 2.4.20-8 kernel vesion. Recently I have > compiled the kernel with changes made for the networking and kernel > debugging. > Compilation went smoothly with all the modules installed. The new kernel was > built with custom string attached to its earlier version as 2.4.20-8Custom. > After the compilation the entry was made in the grub.conf and the boot entry > was root=LABEL=/ followed by the initrd image path. > When I tried to boot in this kernel, kernel panicked saying get correct > entry for root=LABEL=/ and the error as Unable to mount root fs on 00:00. > Can any one please explain what is wrong with this, or if there is any step > missed by me? > I want to boot in this kernel only. > Thanks.
I tried the mkinitrd. But it says the image already present.
if you want to make initrd, you should remove previous initrd or rename the previous initrd or make new initrd with a different name and add its entry in grub. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
