> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Himanshu Chauhan > <chauhan.jpr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I know is an all-time asked question. But I am asking this not > because I > am clueless but because I am fed up of "the ubuntu way". I am > done with > its UID way of getting to partitions. I want to use good old > days > root=/dev/sda1. Can somebody tell me how to do this? I no > longer want > crazy make-kpkg stuff. I remember when I used to use RedHat > distro > > Try to read some of the docs because its not suppose to be complex for > newbies. > > > (before fedora was launched, RedHat 9), things were simpler, I > guess. I > was able to compile and deploy the kernel even though those > were > *starting* days for me for linux. > > Regards > - Himanshu > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 16:13 +0500, Shaz wrote: > In order for the distros to compete in the modern days, they have to > introduce newer and smoother ways of doing things, including kernel > development. They will have older tools for backward compatibility or > else you can get them from their respective sites. If you are used to > the RedHat way of doing things than you should use Fedora. > > First of all, I am sorry to cut-and-paste your conversation here. Since these messages are archived, others who visit later would get a good context. Top posting would not be that good. Secondly, I did everything and the kernel installed fine. But when new kernel comes up it waits for root device and then breaks into a busybox shell. My first impression was that may be I had compiled ext3 and ext2 files system drivers as modules and may be initramfs didn't have them. So reconfigured the kernel to make sure that they are builtin. But no luck. It still breaks and drops at the busybox shell. I even tried giving root=LABEL=/ and root=/dev/sda1 but nothing seems to help. I don't know how this UUID stuff works. Furthermore, I am unable to explain that even when ext3 & ext2 are compiled in, /dev/sda1 fails. I would have no gripes using Ubuntu further (I like this distro alot), but can somebody point me to the story of UUID and how can I make it work? Thanks Regards - Himanshu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
