Re: Booting 2.6.10-rc3

[Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>]

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
> 
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