Re: grub and 2.5.50

Matt Young
2002-12-13T06:51:18Z

Got things going by doing that trick, good tip,

On Thursday 12 December 2002 05:09, Alex Tomas wrote:
> >>>>> Stefan Reinauer (SR) writes:
>
> SR> * Matt Young <wz6b@arrl.net> [021210 01:40]:
> >> These grub commands work with SUSE 2.4.19-4GB:
> >>
> >> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 vga=791 initrd
> >> (hd0,0)/initrd
> >>
> >> But with 2.5.50 the kernel panics after Freeing the initrd memory
> >> with "Unable te mount root FS, please correct the root= cammand
> >> line"
> >>
> >> I have compiled with the required file systems
> >> (EXT2,EXT3,REISERFS).
>
> SR> Did you also compile in support for the root device itself
> SR> (i.e. ide or scsi driver). These are loaded via the initrd
> SR> normally on SuSE, which will not work, if you did not install
> SR> newer modutils..
>
> First of all, 2.5.10 has sysfs-related bug. try to replace root=/dev/hda3
> by root=303
>
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