[Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box orSuseorAnything :(

Giorgio Calarco gcalarco at deis.unibo.it
Tue Aug 24 13:29:09 EDT 2004


if I remember correctly, the next time you will
re-launch "make install", the append="root=LABEL=/" option
will appear again inside you lilo.conf  (I suppose the same with grub).

ciao
giorgio


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beyers Cronje" <bcronje at cs.co.za>
To: "Giorgio Calarco" <gcalarco at deis.unibo.it>; "Davila, Pedro Manuel"
<pedro at miami.edu>
Cc: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: RE: [Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box
orSuseorAnything :(


> That's right, I just changed LABEL to /dev/hdb2 where / fs is. I'm using
grub but I'm sure same applies to lilo.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> [mailto:click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu]On Behalf Of Giorgio Calarco
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:01 AM
> To: Davila, Pedro Manuel
> Cc: click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box
> orSuseorAnything :(
>
>
> mmm, did you remove the
>
> append="root=LABEL=/"
>
> (which works only with the RedHat kernel... )
> and put :
>
> root=/dev/sdb3
>
> inside of your lilo.conf to indicate where the root fs is?
>
>
> ciao
> giorgio
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Beyers Cronje" <bcronje at cs.co.za>
> To: "Eddie Kohler" <kohler at cs.ucla.edu>; "Davila, Pedro Manuel"
> <pedro at miami.edu>
> Cc: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:01 PM
> Subject: RE: [Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box or
> SuseorAnything :(
>
>
> > Also you can try and change the "root=" tag in grub.conf || lilo.conf to
> > the full path "root=/dev/hdb3" or wherever your root fs resides. On my
> > Redhat 9 box I also got the "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root"
> > error after a new vanilla kernel was added, the above settings sorted it
> > out for me.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> > [mailto:click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu]On Behalf Of Eddie Kohler
> > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:54 PM
> > To: Davila, Pedro Manuel
> > Cc: click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box or
> > Suseor Anything :(
> >
> >
> > Davila, Pedro Manuel wrote:
> > > I forgot to mention the error I get when i try to boot the newly
> > compiled kernel.
> > >
> > >     VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb3" on 08:13
> > >     Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > >     Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root from 08:13
> >
> > Pedro,
> >
> > It looks like you are not using the proper configuration options in the
> > "make
> > menuconfig" step.  Probably you have not turned on the configuration
> > option that
> > supports your hard disk (sdb3).
> >
> > Eddie
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