Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271205AbTHLWxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:53:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271206AbTHLWxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:53:47 -0400 Received: from cmu-24-35-14-252.mivlmd.cablespeed.com ([24.35.14.252]:37254 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271205AbTHLWxp (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:53:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:52:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Thomas Molina X-X-Sender: tmolina@localhost.localdomain To: jeff millar cc: herbert@13thfloor.at, Norbert Preining , Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs In-Reply-To: <005001c360cf$815cb860$6401a8c0@wa1hco> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2145 Lines: 55 > > I would suggest to give append="root=/dev/hdb1" a try, > > and/or update lilo or change to grub ... > > > > I'm getting the same sorts of error messages with grub. Here's the > grub.conf file...originally generated by a Redhat 9 install. > > 2.4.20 works with root=0303. But I've tried all the variants after root= > (03:03, 0303, hda3, /dev/hda3) and nothing works > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > # boot=/dev/hda > # 2.6.0-test kernels apparently have bug > # in processing root=device names > # changed to major:minor where minor is letter*64 + partition number > # hdb1 = 03:65, hda3=03:03 > # But, that didn't work for 2.4.20...trying 0303 now I have a hard time believing that 2.6.0-test kernels have this bug. There must be something else going on here. This is my grub.conf file: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,7) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda8 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.8) root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.8 ro root=/dev/hda8 vga=792 initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.8.img title Red Hat Linux (2.6.0-test2-0808) root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test2-0808 ro root=/dev/hda8 vga=792 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/