From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Markus_Klotzb=FCcher?= Subject: kernel boot trouble Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:15:03 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <002701c36173$001782e0$2700a8c0@Mary> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi I=B4m trying to boot a kernel (2.4.19-pre5) with an initrd image I crea= ted with mkinitrd , but I always get a kernel panic saying =2E.. ds: no socket drivers loaded! VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=3D/" or 00:00 Please append a correct "root=3D" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00=20 My grub.conf looks like this: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,1) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=3D/dev/hda2 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=3D/dev/hda default=3D0 timeout=3D10 splashimage=3D(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=3DLABEL=3D/ hde=3Dide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img ### the above is the default and properly working kernel title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ### this is windows title Red Hat Linux (2.4.19-pre5-aio) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-pre5-aio ro root=3DLABEL=3D/ hde=3Dide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.19-pre5-aio.img ### this is the kernel I compiled and that causes the kernel panic As you can see I only changed the title and the filenames of the kernel image and initrd image, so I don=B4t understand why does one work and o= ne not? If anyone needs more information, just let me know. Thanks alot fo= r any help. Greetings Markus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= 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.linux-learn.org/faqs