From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
Cc: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>,
linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booting without initrd
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:40:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149813659.3124.31.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b29067a0606081040q17c66f5bpa966da851635e942@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:40 -0400, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to boot with 2.6.16 kernel at my desktop running fedora
> > core 4 . It does not boot without initrd generating the message "VFS:
> > can not open device "804" or unknown-block(8,4)
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,4)
>
> AFAIK Fedora sets up the kernel command line with "root=LABEL=/" in
> grub.conf and therefore needs the initrd in order to work correctly.
> If you do not want an initrd, then change this to
> "root=/dev/<your_disk>" in grub.conf.
it's more than that; also udev is used from the initrd to populate a
ramfs /dev, if you go without the initrd you need to populate the
*real* /dev manually first
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-09 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-07 16:13 Ram Gupta
2006-06-07 18:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-08 17:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2006-06-08 14:39 ` Mark Lord
2006-06-08 17:58 ` David Lang
2006-06-08 19:56 ` Mark Rustad
2006-06-08 20:32 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-06-09 0:40 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-09 1:43 ` Paul Dickson
2006-06-09 3:33 ` Joe Korty
2006-06-09 20:44 ` Yaroslav Klyukin
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