From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262090AbUCVQe2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:34:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262092AbUCVQe2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:34:28 -0500 Received: from imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.70]:31617 "EHLO imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262090AbUCVQeZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:34:25 -0500 Message-ID: <405E0B7E.9010507@sunshinearcade.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:39:10 +1400 From: Paul Hickey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Cannot open root device on 2.6.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Running RH9 on a AMD686. Kernel 2.4.8 works fine. I receive the follwing error when booting my new 2.6.4 kernel: _______________________________________________________ *VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)* _______________________________________________________ Upon compiling the kernel I was informed that: Root Device is (3,2) Does that have something to do with it? Please advise the appropriate action to webmaster@sunshinearcade.com I tried it with initrd as well as the above both with the same error. Below is my grub.conf ______________________________________________________ # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Test Kernel (2.6.4) root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage-2.6.4-1 ro root=LABEL=/ ____________________________________________________