Re: grub and 2.5.50

[Matt Young]

Got things going by doing that trick, good tip,

On Thursday 12 December 2002 05:09, Alex Tomas wrote:
> >>>>> Stefan Reinauer (SR) writes:
>
>  SR> * Matt Young <[e-mail]> [021210 01:40]:
>  >> These grub commands work with SUSE 2.4.19-4GB:
>  >>
>  >> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 vga=791 initrd
>  >> (hd0,0)/initrd
>  >>
>  >> But with 2.5.50 the kernel panics after Freeing the initrd memory
>  >> with "Unable te mount root FS, please correct the root= cammand
>  >> line"
>  >>
>  >> I have compiled with the required file systems
>  >> (EXT2,EXT3,REISERFS).
>
>  SR> Did you also compile in support for the root device itself
>  SR> (i.e. ide or scsi driver). These are loaded via the initrd
>  SR> normally on SuSE, which will not work, if you did not install
>  SR> newer modutils..
>
> First of all, 2.5.10 has sysfs-related bug. try to replace root=/dev/hda3
> by root=303
>
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