Is this what causes a hang on booting a new kernel when "Freeing unused kernel memory..." appears, then init doesn't load (or execute)? I have that problem on attempting a kernal compile under RH 7.3. There are no errors about mounting ext3.
John Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:39, Javier Gostling wrote: > ... > >>which is expected. Now, when I rebooted to apply the kernel upgrade, the >>system hung on startup with the new kernel. After some investigation, I >>found that the linuxrc script in the initrd image for 2.4.9-34smp was >>getting an error when mounting the root filesystem, hence pivot_root >>failed and init could not run (hang). The specific message is: >> >>mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > It's a kernel bug. Change your grub.conf to use: > root=3003 > where 3003 is the hex value of the root device's major and minor number. > > In our case, the root device is on /dev/rd/c0d0p3, it's major and minor > numbers are 48 and 3: > # ls -l /dev/rd/c0d0p3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 48, 3 Apr 11 07:25 /dev/rd/c0d0p3 > > Decimal 48 is hex 30; decimal 3 is hex 3, so "3003" is the root device. > Adjust values to suit your own install. > > Early kernels in 7.3 also had this problem, but the latest errata > included a fix (a missing patch, apparently). > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
