From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964920AbWFHRkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:40:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964921AbWFHRkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:40:14 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.232]:17970 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964920AbWFHRkM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:40:12 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:40:11 -0400 From: "Rahul Karnik" To: "Ram Gupta" Subject: Re: booting without initrd Cc: "linux mailing-list" In-Reply-To: <728201270606070913g2a6b23bbj9439168a1d8dbca8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <728201270606070913g2a6b23bbj9439168a1d8dbca8@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/7/06, Ram Gupta 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/" in grub.conf. Note that the reason Fedora uses the LABEL is so you can move disks around in your system without a problem, so you should be careful doing so after making the change. -Rahul -- Rahul Karnik rahul@genebrew.com