Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread Malik Jayawardena
Change the kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ line to represent the hard disk/partition your booting from i.e. instead of root=LABEL=/ try somethinglike root=/dev/hda1 (I'm guessing you are using this because you already have root (hd0,0) stated in grub) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following > message: > > Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 e2label can show and change these labels. The reason the label is used is for hot pluggable drives - where sdc

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:46:45 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi greg, > When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following > message: > > Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 [snip] > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Williams
Hi woodgrove You need to explicitly tell the boot manager where the root partition is, I know it's stupid but I have had to do from day one on RedHat. So if you are using grub edit /etc/grub.conf and change the boot paramater root=LABEL=/ to root= could look something like /dev/hda5. If you a

[SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread woodgrove
Hi, When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following message: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 I built the kernel from source, following these stages: make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp .config /boot/confi