Re: Booting 2.6.10-rc3

["Anandraj" <anandrajm@fastmail.fm>]

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" <james4765@verizon.net>
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
> > 
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