On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:47:31AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > Rob wrote: > > It dies when it tries to mount root. I wasn't sure what that > > 'root=LABEL=/1' thing was, so I left it. > > There may be a patch or special config setting needed (I don't know > for sure) to enable booting by label. Try replacing root=LABEL=/1 > with root=/dev/hda3 or whatever. > > > Also, remind me what initrd does? Do I need it? How do you make one? > > Initrd is short for initial ram disk. It is a ram disk image that the > boot loader loads into memory with the kernel. If your distro > uses initrd, then you should too, because it's hard to second-guess > what their config files do. Inital ram disk that often has kernel modules in it like... oh.. extfs, reiserfs, ext3fs. Since your kernel can't mount your root file system it may be because the kernel does have file system support for it.
However I would take out root=LABEL=/1. I don't know what that is, but the root option tells the kernel where to to look for the root file system. Try root=/dev/hda1, which is what you specified already with "root (hd0,0)" Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
