From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261375AbULEUGj (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:06:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261379AbULEUGi (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:06:38 -0500 Received: from out009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.131]:23292 "EHLO out009.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261375AbULEUGc (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:06:32 -0500 Message-ID: <41B36A5D.50901@verizon.net> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:06:53 -0500 From: Jim Nelson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anandraj CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: Booting 2.6.10-rc3 References: <1102256916.29858.210104494@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1102256916.29858.210104494@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [209.158.220.243] at Sun, 5 Dec 2004 14:06:31 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" 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.tux.org/lkml/ >