-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 December 2002 04:39 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (more fun and games from kernel land.) > > i just built a new kernel, installed modules, tossed the kernel > into /boot, etc. etc -- the regular stuff. then edited /etc/grub.conf > and added a new stanza for the new kernel, almost identical to the > old stanza, but not "initrd.img" line. > [snip] > booting the new kernel failed, allegedly couldn't mount the > root FS "LABEL=/", as if it wasn't capable of translating the fact > that i was referring to /dev/hda1 by LABEL and not device name. > > i rebooted and, at the grub menu, just edited that line to say > "root=/dev/hda1". no problem. > > what was *that* all about? is there some kernel config option > i might have inadvertantly turned off that allows a grub line to > say "root=LABEL=/", rather than "root=/dev/hda1"?? i'm puzzled > by this one.
The only thing that comes to mind is CONFIG_DEVFS_FS. Did you enable that option by any chance? - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+C/AJn/07WoAb/SsRAkLcAJ9tBtCbDpo5W1AHQ4RIiFg72lTD9wCguxUj Z5lstUWZe088xV+Vzq53YAk= =jDxc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
