On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:10:32 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote > On Tuesday 02 Nov 2004 18:39, Noah wrote: > > using: Redhat-enterprise WS version 3 > > > > > > I just built a custom kernel using the 2.4.21-20.EL source rpm. it simply > > does not boot and claims a VFS error and is unable to open root device > > "LABEL=/" > have you tried putting the actual device node instead of the LABEL=/ > option? > e.g. kernel /whatever ro root=/dev/hda2 > (or whichever /dev/hdaX your / Filesystem is) df will tell you this > ( I assume you can still boot with an old kernel?) > e.g: [stuart@laptop stuart]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks > Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 6048320 > 4815104 925976 84% / none 517712 0 > 517712 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda8 21204420 3317020 > 16810244 17% /home /dev/sda1 241263968 62852732 > 166155652 28% /mnt/disk > > so in my case root=/dev/hda7 > Stuart, thanks for the quick reply. I am going to assume that /dev/sda2 is my root filesystem - right? --- snip --- $ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 151723100 3861340 140154580 3% / /dev/sda1 101089 35938 59932 38% /boot none 512700 0 512700 0% /dev/shm --- snip --- now my /etc/fstab looks like this: --- snip --- /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 --- snip --- cheers, Noah > Stuart > -- > Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
