Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
hours Googling for any and everybody's thoughts on the error: 'Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)' with little luck. What are the lines preceding the error ? Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Yes, I am. I am also

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
for the harddrive are created before the drive is mounted. Booting an 'Etch' partition I see that Squeeze's /dev/ is all but empty when Squeeze is not running which may have something to do with the failure to mount the root partition. Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Dom
On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:08:14 -0400 (EDT), Mike McClain wrote: Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Any tips, pointers will be appreciated. It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Mike McClain
reach this point the grub commandline will show that all partitions on both drives are recognized by grub. Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Yes, I am. I am also running a custom kernel without an initrd and without udev (which was one purpose of the custom

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Dom, Thanks for your suggestions and letting me know this is still possible. On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:56:10AM +0100, Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 00:08, Mike McClain wrote: snip Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Yes, I am. Although I believe

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:53:27 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why is it so important to you not to use one? As others have pointed out, using a UUID or LABEL specification for the root

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Stephen, On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 11:53:58AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: snip http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm Thanks, I'll take a look at that. Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Dom
On 07/07/12 18:49, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:53:27 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why is it so important to you not to use one? As others have pointed out, using a

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Dom
On 07/07/12 16:46, Mike McClain wrote: Hi Dom, Thanks for your suggestions and letting me know this is still possible. On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:56:10AM +0100, Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 00:08, Mike McClain wrote: snip Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Mike McClain a écrit : VFS: Cannot open root device sdb5 or unknown-block(0,0) Please append correct root= boot option; here are available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Note that there are no 'available partitions' listed though

custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-06 Thread Mike McClain
an 'Etch' partition I see that Squeeze's /dev/ is all but empty when Squeeze is not running which may have something to do with the failure to mount the root partition. Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Any tips, pointers will be appreciated. Thanks, Mike

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-06 Thread Dom
before the drive is mounted. Booting an 'Etch' partition I see that Squeeze's /dev/ is all but empty when Squeeze is not running which may have something to do with the failure to mount the root partition. Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Yes, I am. Although I