Re: S3 test

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:59 +0200, Frank wrote:
> Li, Shaohua wrote:
> > Add something like this in /etc/grub.conf:
> >
> > title test
> > 	kernel /boot/kernel-image-name
> > 	initrd /boot/initramfs-name
> 
> This causes my kernel to panic, because it doesn't find the root.
> 
> I don't know if I did the right thing: I built a new kernel, that I configured 
> with "make allnoconfig" and enabled ACPI support + IDE + reiserfs (because 
> my /boot is on a reiserfs-partition).
> 
> My Grub line:
> 
> title s3test
> 	{root (hd0,2)}
> 	kernel /boot/bzImage-s3test {root=/dev/hda3}
> 	initrd /boot/initramfs.cpio
> 
> I tried with and without the parts in curly bracket.
> Is this enough or the completely wrong way to go?
Don't know what's the matter. The initramfs doesn't try to mount root
device and it works for me. I even didn't build IDE & reiserfs, since I
think grub will load the kernel image and initrd image to memory.

Thanks,
Shaohua



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