Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:55:02 +0100 (WEST)
From: "Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt>
To: prasad@atc.tcs.co.in
cc: "Wise, Jeremey" <jeremey.wise@agilysys.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel or Grub bug.
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 prasad@atc.tcs.co.in wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I did it.
I'm actually using lilo, but I've tried with both.

Mind Booster Noori

> 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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