[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I am trying to rebuild the kernel after applying a patch using 'make
> bzdisk' to build a boot image on the floppy to test the kernel before
> overwriting the previous one. It terminates with an error with VFS
> stating that it could not load the root fs 08:25. I am unable to find
> any documentation on this error. Has anyone run across this before?
[summer@possum summer]$ ls /dev/*| grep ' 8, *25 '
brw-rw---- 1 root 8, 25 May 6 1998 /dev/sdb9
[summer@possum summer]$
This is kernel-speak for "The filesystem on /dev/sdb9 does not contain
/sbin/init"
I don't use boot floppies (except as a last resort). I do have lilo confiured
to allow me to choose from several kernels, at least one of which works.
boot=/dev/hda
#VGA=773
vga=6
#VGA=0x305
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
root=/dev/hda8
timeout=50
default=new
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=new
append="parport=auto apm=off"
read-only
other=/dev/hdb
label=rhl7
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0-prerelease
label=pre
optional
read-only
and so on. The default is the one I just created. I only choose one of the
others if that one's broken or I want some other configuration (maybe Redhat
Linux 7 for example).
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