From: prasad@atc.tcs.co.in
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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:46:42 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Re: Kernel or Grub bug.
To: "Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt>
Cc: "Wise, Jeremey" <jeremey.wise@agilysys.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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have you tried removing the initrd entry in GRUB.
In most cases you can safely do away with it.  That would
atleast make sure the problem is not with the initrd.

Prasad

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> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Prasad wrote:
>
>>> "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"
>>
>> Your partition table suggests that there are two different partitions
>> for
>> '/boot'
>> and '/'.  The GRUB loads the kernel from '/boot' which is (hd0,0) but
>> the
>> kernel is unable to find the '/' partition.   You may pass it using the
>> parameter
>> root=/dev/hda3.
>>
>> That should work.
>>
>> Prasad
>
> It may not work. As he said in the original message, he found lot's of
> other
> people with that problem, including... myself. Since 2.6.4 I can't boot
> any 2.6
> kernel, allways with that Kernel panic. I've tried several things,
> including
> using the root=/dev/hda3 parameter, and, at the time, I've raised the
> issue
> here on LKML, but no conclusion has been reached.
>
> A search on LKML led me to this:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.3/1180.html
>
> Mind Booster Noori
>
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