kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 works

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:05:24PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>   VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>   VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block(0,0)
>   Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>   Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>     unknown-block(0,0)
[snip]
> Also very disturbing: this happens with the newest kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2, but
> kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 works fine.

Using "root=/dev/hda2" works around the problem. Odd.

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