From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261392AbULFIoN (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:44:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261400AbULFIoN (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:44:13 -0500 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:64980 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261392AbULFIoE (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:44:04 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.5 (F2.73; T1.001; A1.64; B3.05; Q3.03) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org References: <1102256916.29858.210104494@webmail.messagingengine.com> <41B36A5D.50901@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Booting 2.6.10-rc3 In-Reply-To: <41B36A5D.50901@verizon.net> To: "Jim Nelson" Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:44:02 -0800 From: "Anandraj" X-Sasl-Enc: cLz1dT/6pK5CcZ2lEoU6DQ 1102322642 Message-Id: <1102322642.18071.210148617@webmail.messagingengine.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi , Now it works after makingsome changes in the grub.conf all i did was, in the grub.conf changed the kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-rc3 ro root=LABLE=/ rhgb quiet to kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-rc3 but, i have no idea , this works! can anybody shed some light on this ? TIA, Anand On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:06:53 -0500, "Jim Nelson" said: > Anandraj wrote: > > hi, > > My linux box with 2.6.9 kernel patched with 2.6.10-rc3 patch doesnot > > come up. > > It shows the following while booting- > > > > root(hd0,4) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs , partition type 0x83 > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-rc3 ro root=LABLE=/ rhgb quiet > > try root=LABEL=/. > > If that does not work, try passing the root fs as something like: > > root=/dev/hda3 > > or wherever your root filesystem is. > > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400,size=0x187b53] > > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-rc3.img > > [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fcb1000,0x2eb22 bytes] > > > > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting kernel > > audit(1102189352.204:0):initialized > > Red Hat nash version 3.5.22 starting > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > > pivotroot: pivo_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed : 2 > > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > > Kenel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try Passing init=option to > > kernel. > > > > > > I am using Fedora 2 distro! > > The default kernel 2.6.5-1.358 that comes along with the distro works ! > > > > I had looked into various forums for "mount: error 6 mounting ext3", > > none of the aswers given by them worked, > > the answers like , making your ext3 module inbuilt ,also does not work ! > > > > Mine is a simple desktop PC with Pentium 4 512MB RAM, it does not deal > > with any SCSI stuff! > > Can somebody help me on this !! ?? > > > > If you did not build an initrd, you do not need reference to an initrd in > the > grub.conf file. > > > TIA, > > Anand > > > > - > > 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/ > > >