I'm trying to replace a 2.6.10 kernel on a Slackware 10.1 system with a 2.6.27.39 kernel. Well, I think I have a usable initrd.gz and kernel now, but I haven't been able to boot successfully. In the old days, you used to say root=/dev/sda6 for example if that is the partition on your scsi disk that holds root. I get a warning not to do that in the boot messages and it doesn't work. What is the new method of setting the root? Do I need to boot with the old 2.6.10 kernel and label the root partition with an ext3 file system label?
I did the following mkinitrd incantantion: mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.27.39 -m jbd:ext3 -m scsi_transport_??:aic7xxxx ... maybe I'm forgetting something... Like I say though, I think I have the initrd and kernel image that I need to boot. I just don't know what the new method of specifying the root filesystem is. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
