On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > Grub and Lilo handle booting differently. These are the lines I have. I don't need an initrd so that line is omitted. image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/sda2 label = Linux read-only Did you run lilo -v after you compiled the new kernel and initrd? I believe make install when compiling the kernel auto adds the line entry to /etc/lilo.conf now so that shouldn't be an issue. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
