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From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: Anandraj <anandrajm@fastmail.fm>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Booting 2.6.10-rc3
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:06:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B36A5D.50901@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102256916.29858.210104494@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05 14:28 Booting 2.6.10-rc3 Anandraj
2004-12-05 18:10 ` Jon Masters
2004-12-05 20:06 ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2004-12-06  8:44   ` Anandraj
2004-12-07  0:13     ` Jon Masters

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