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From: Marco Baan <marco@freebsd.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: failure to mount root fs
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:38:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040329113850.GA21283@maiden.localhost.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26889266.1080559781017.JavaMail.www@wwinf3002>

> > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> > ...
> > kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.4 ro root=LABEL=/
> 
> The "LABEL=/" is the attempt to mount root filesystem by label, so you can 
> move it to another disk. I find these "clever" things not mature yet and always replace it by an explicit device name (and don't move/replace root disk):
> 
> kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.4 ro root=/dev/hda2
> 
> (this assumes that your root fs is on /dev/hda2, change it appropriately to match your situation)
> 

Okay, changed it. Didnt make a difference however.

-- 
Marco Baan

"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts."
		-- Winston Churchill

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-29 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-29 11:29 failure to mount root fs tigran
2004-03-29 11:38 ` Marco Baan [this message]
2004-03-29 12:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 12:05   ` Marco Baan
2004-03-29 14:42   ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-03-29 21:47     ` Marco Baan

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