All, I've been running the stock RH7.1 kernel for about 6 months. I recently decided to upgrade, so I grabbed the source to 2.4.12, and did the following:
make mrproper make xconfig (selected options) make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install Since I use a boot disk, I grabbed a new disk, and issued the "mkbootdisk 2.4.12" command. The boot disk seemed to build fine. However, when I boot with the new boot disk, I get an error: "VFS: cannot mount /dev/hda5, please specify root= option" or something very similar. When I boot with the old boot disk (kernel 2.4.2-2), everything works fine. I checked: (1) /etc/lilo.conf - entries seem correct for both 2.4.2-2 and 2.4.12. I also ran lilo, so the changes were committed. (2) ext2fs is compiled into the kernel. /dev/hda5 *is* an ext2fs partition, and it works fine with 2.4.2-2. Does anyone know why the new kernel refuses to mount /dev/hda5? FYI, that's my root partition. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
