On Fri, Jan 11, 2002, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > > > > Is there a safe and stable way to build/install woody packages onto a > > > potato system other than to dist-upgrade to woody? > > > >what's from with dist-upgrade? > > > > Only that the new 2.4 kernel-image wont mount my root partition: > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 > > Even though lilo.conf specifies the correct root= option, and fstab is > correct as well. >
Did you remember to add the initrd line to lilo.conf? HTH, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
