Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 12/20/2006 04:23:06 PM:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:54 +0530, hemen.kapadia@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I faced a similar problem and was able to sort it out by changing the
> > root= kernel option to point to /dev/hda1 (where I mount root).
> >
> > I follow the steps below after compilation of my vanilla kernel
> >
> > As root :
> > make modules_install
>
> > mkinitrd -v -f /boot/intird-<version>.img <version>
> > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinux-<version>
> > cp System.map /boot/System.map-<version>
> > cp .config /bonfig-<version> //This is just for my reference.
>
> these steps are done by make install, and then you really don't need to
> "fix" the root label (because if you do you'll get trouble later)
>
Tried booting the system using LABEL rather than /dev.... It worked!
Apart from the pitfall with devices changing names (i.e. storage devices) is there any other pitfall that comes to your mind.
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