Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262827AbUC2MA2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:00:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262829AbUC2MA2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:00:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:62926 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262827AbUC2MAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:00:21 -0500 Subject: Re: failure to mount root fs From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk Cc: Marco Baan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <26889266.1080559781017.JavaMail.www@wwinf3002> References: <26889266.1080559781017.JavaMail.www@wwinf3002> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-qhwKyzboxnm0BVOLXLCH" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1080561608.3570.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:00:08 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 42 --=-qhwKyzboxnm0BVOLXLCH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:29, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk wrote: > Hi Macro, >=20 > You wrote: >=20 > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > ... > > kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.4 ro root=3DLABEL=3D/ >=20 > The "LABEL=3D/" is the attempt to mount root filesystem by label, so you = can=20 > move it to another disk. I find these "clever" things not mature yet and = always replace it by an explicit device name (and don't move/replace root d= isk): it's ok as long as you remember to make an initrd (make install in the kernel source will do so automatic, at least on a RH/Fedora system) --=-qhwKyzboxnm0BVOLXLCH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAaA/HxULwo51rQBIRAncXAJ0VxDhGo9oXUT/wWH57VnIPTwjQqwCfdsoI LqKZgODvPOnxjrNH7iFaQvc= =G3t5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-qhwKyzboxnm0BVOLXLCH-- - 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/