On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Mark Hoover wrote: > Jesse, > > Thanks for the help. I tried this over the weekend and amazingly enough > it works great. I was seriously expecting some kind of boot error by leaving > that initrd line out. > > I will note however, RH7.x used a root=/dev/<partition> notation for it's > Lilo/Grub config files. RH8 seems to have moved to a root=LABEL=/ notation > which might be the cause of the initial ramdisk showing up during the kernel > build. The kernel I built for some reason doesn't understand the newer > notation, but changing it back to the old form makes the kernel boot > perfectly. if you want to use the "root=LABEL=/" label notation, then you need to use the initrd, or build ext3 support right into the kernel. if you're happy with the /dev notation, you're fine without it. once upon a time, i knew why this was true. :-( rday -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
