fedora and kernel 2.6.1

[Bob Chiodini]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:56, Budai Laszlo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to compile the 2.6.1 kernel on Cedora Core 1. I've downloaded 
>   the source from kernel.org, and try to follow the readme for installing.
> a  did make menuconfig, select the things I need (ex3 extended 
> attributes and posix ACL among them), then make, make bzImage, make 
> modules make modules_install, make install.
> Before make install I've loaded the loop kernel module.
> When I try to boot the new kernel it hangs with the folloving error:
> 
> VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block (0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
> 
> I did try to specify root=0803 in grub.conf but the message now is: VFS: 
> cannot open root device "0803" or unknown-block (8,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,3)
> 
> What can be done?
> 
> 
> thank you,
> Laszlo


In grub.conf, try changing LABEL=/ to the real device name (e.g.
/dev/hda1) of your / partition.  Something like:


        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.2 ro root=/dev/hda1


However labels work okay for me with the 2.6.2 kernel.

Bob...
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