Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267405AbUIKEWQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:22:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267406AbUIKEWQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:22:16 -0400 Received: from web51606.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.211]:16493 "HELO web51606.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267405AbUIKEWN (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:22:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20040911042213.8980.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:22:13 -0700 (PDT) From: ngo giang Subject: Error with initrd when build kernel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: 1356 Lines: 55 Hello, I?m using Linux RedHat 8 , kernel-2.4.18 I?m trying to build kernel-2.4.26 I did following : ???. make xconfig , make dep , make clean , make bzImage make modules , make modules_install mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules /boot/initrd-xxx.img xxx cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-xxx cp System.map /boot/System.map-xxx ln -s /boot/System.map-xxx /boot/System.map Every thing fine But when I configured grub.conf as follow : title ( ?.) root(hd0,0) kernel /bzImage-2.4.26 ro root=LABEL=/ ( I don?t know where my root is on ) initrd /initrd-2.4.26.img when reboot I received the error as follow : ? VFS : cannot open root device ? label = / ? or 00:00 Please append a correct ? root = ? boot option Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 ? Can anyone tell me how I can configure the grub.conf or how the configuration is ( at stage : make xconfig ) to avoid creating initrd Could anyone help me . Thanks for yours help ! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail - 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/