-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 May 2003 01:40:30 -0600, Daniel Sheltraw wrote:
> I am having a problem building a new kernel for a MSI 845E Max > Motherboard. I am running RH9.0 and rebuilding a 2.4.20 kernel. > > The problem appears to be with the HDD/CD-ROM controller (an > ICH4 on an Intel 845E chipset) of the IDE hard-drive (WD 40GB > IDE/7200). When I boot my newly built kernel I get a kernel > panic with the following lines: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Did you create an initrd (RAM-disk) image for your newly built kernel? > My old /etc/lilo.conf file (which worked fine) had the > following line in it (as does the image section for my new > kernel): > > append = "hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" > > I am not familiar with what this line is doing. Also I do not > have a good .config file to work with so I am not at all sure > of my initial configuration of the IDE and SCSI parts of the > kernel (the config file in /boot was garbage on my system). You find Red Hat's kernel config file in /boot/config-$VERSION and also in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-* where you need to pick the right one for your CPU architecture. > Can you please help me with understanding what that line in > lilo.conf is about? "hdc=ide-scsi" is a kernel parameter that enables ATAPI SCSI-Emulation for /dev/hdc (which is an ATAPI CD-burner most likely). "root=LABEL=/" is the kernel parameter that specifies your root partition, the partition mount at '/'. Rather than specifying the device file, it makes use of partition labels. The partition with the label '/' is your root partition. You can examine your partitions with the "e2label" tool. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1gul0iMVcrivHFQRAic8AJ9UVv6IPq7GALcypnXoaONFfXuJmgCggk6q RoFuVwkjd8Lt3iHvBx0jERc= =aBUl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
