Hi woodgrove You need to explicitly tell the boot manager where the root partition is, I know it's stupid but I have had to do from day one on RedHat.
So if you are using grub edit /etc/grub.conf and change the boot paramater root=LABEL=/ to root=<your root part> <your root part> could look something like /dev/hda5. If you are using lilo edit: /etc/lilo.conf I forget what RedHat lilo.conf file looks like but just find the reference to root and change it to <your root part> then run as root: lilo -v to update lilo Darren On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following > message: > > Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 > > I built the kernel from source, following these stages: > > make mrproper > make menuconfig > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > cp .config /boot/config-2.4.20-20.9 > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 > cp System.map /boot/config-2.4.20-20.9 > mkinitrd --image-version initrd 2.4.20-20.9custom > cp initrd-2.4.20-20.9custom /boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img > > I've added the following lines to /boot/grub/grub.conf: > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img > > These lines are copied from other successful boot lines, with just the > version numbers changed. > > Have I done something wrong in my creation of the ram disk maybe? Is > there a script somewhere which does a proper job? > > Thanks. > Greg Wood. > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
