Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275264AbTHMQ7X (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:59:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275269AbTHMQ7W (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:59:22 -0400 Received: from mail.cybertrails.com ([162.42.150.35]:29712 "EHLO mail2.cybertrails.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275264AbTHMQ7V (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:59:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:59:13 -0700 From: Paul Dickson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: wa1hco@adelphia.net, herbert@13thfloor.at, preining@logic.at, Thomas Molina Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs Message-Id: <20030813095913.23c1e0a8.dickson@permanentmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <005001c360cf$815cb860$6401a8c0@wa1hco> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1586 Lines: 38 On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:52:50 -0500 (CDT), Thomas Molina wrote: > > 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: If you're running RH9, try the non-kernel RPMs found at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/ I haven't had any trouble getting 2.6.0-test started with these. -Paul - 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/