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From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Booting 2.6.10-rc3
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:13:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cp2sk5$61r$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102322642.18071.210148617@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Anandraj wrote:

> 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 ?

There's a repeated typo in your root=LABLE=/ entry, since it should be 
LABEL instead of LABLE.

That entry tells the kernel to look for a filesystem which contains a 
label in its superblock that matches the one you gave via grub.

Cheers,

Jon.



      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-07  0:23 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
2004-12-06  8:44   ` Anandraj
2004-12-07  0:13     ` Jon Masters [this message]

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