On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:32:37 -0500, Yasushi Okubo wrote > Do you have a raid array ? If so, the driver may need to be compiledfor your custom kernel. It is better to check your /etc/module.conffor what type of drivers are expected for your nomal kernel. Hi, I dont have a raid array. but I did comment out the scsi_hostadapter ata_piix in the /etc/modules.conf file since it was creating issues when installing some other kernels. am I doing the right thing here? here is a copy of my /etc/modules.conf --- to get an idea of what I did. --- snip ---- alias eth0 tg3 #alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : alias sound-slot-1 rme96xx post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd --- snip --- > > Noah wrote: > 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 --- 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