From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932284AbWFGQNi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:13:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932286AbWFGQNi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:13:38 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:50846 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932284AbWFGQNi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:13:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=RmmFAH10UuLURLR96AyXQADvN0duS/UGFX4T/UeJCAkASkScnLfamDykTCAGJVtG9AyVC/P/nAJ/ab9gni/oA3k+sPflwFEHlJtl9sXoYlvhM4K6eIUlkAKaMm2iaNxa1VN6nbGCrHjm8s9ot+d8m7QnCHvK+x7KZNtSSpWB5O8= Message-ID: <728201270606070913g2a6b23bbj9439168a1d8dbca8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:13:36 +0000 From: "Ram Gupta" To: "linux mailing-list" Subject: booting without initrd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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) I have disabled the module support & built in all modules/drivers for ide/scsi/sata but it does not boot. I have to disable the module as I need a statically built kernel. If someone could describe the way to boot without initrd it will be great. Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Ram Gupta