Adam, Did you mean to post this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU coreutils are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. You don't seem to be having a GNU coreutils problem.
I suggest looking there first. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ Bob Adam Felix Bogacki wrote: > Hi, at the risk of being tiresome (to myself if no one else) ... I > apt-graded to kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 successfully, but after the next > dist-upgrade - which 'upgraded' the kernel-image - I found reboot gave > me kernel panic > > "VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb5" or unknown-block (0,0) > Please append a correct "root= " boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)" > > Googling around suggested that 2.6.5 has changed the parsing of the > "root= " boot argument. > > I rebooted with the rescue disk (2.4.8-bf2.4), which is missing its > modules dependency file (modules.dep), but now find > > "Tux:~# /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -m /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5-1-686 -o 2.6.5custom > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd line 1: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5-1-686: Permission denied" > > Am I missing something here - or a bug ? > > Adam Bogacki, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-coreutils mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
