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Re: [linuxiran]booting new kernel
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Arash Bijanzadeh |
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Re: [linuxiran]booting new kernel |
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Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:31:03 +0330 |
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Hi,
You have got the answer already. Hope that helped you. It is our new mailing
list. I just wanted you to be informed about it and also about the new site
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the site.
Cheers
Arash
comments bellow:
On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:02, Anahita Fathipur wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am not a linux newbie but I am in basics still!!
>
> can you please help me about booting the OS after compiling my RH 8.0
> kernel(2.4.18-14)... it is my lilo.conf:
>
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=win2000
> boot=/dev/hdc6 /* I am sure about the block device */
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
> label=RH8.0
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14
> read-only
> append="root=LABEL=/"
ignore this line and add a root=/dev/hdaX
>
> image=/boot/bzImage
> label=TestRH8.0
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14
> read-only
> append="root=LABEL=/"
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> optional
> label=win2000
>
> while I reboot the system and select the "TestRH8.0" label it stops and the
> error message is : .
> .
> .
> "VFS : cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot partition
> Kernel panic : unable to mount root fs on 00:00"
>
> if the problem is really in root address why the original kernel boots
> correctly, while they both use the "boot=/dev/hdc6" address to identify
> root partition?
>
> can you please help me?
>
> the other thing I had noticed was that when in lilo.conf the address of
> windows boot partition had been mentioned "other=/dev/hdc" !! it had been
> booted many times correctly!! why it is so??
>
> thanks in advance...
>
>
>
>
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