On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:45:32AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Grub seems to work for my Debian kernels: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686 > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686 > savedefault > boot > > But not for a home compiled kernel: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11 > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11 root=/dev/hda6 ro > savedefault > boot > > When I try to boot 2.6.11, the kernel can't find the root filesystem and > panics.
If the root filesystem is on /dev/hda, then the drive should be hd(0,0). http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Naming-convention.html#Naming%20convention -David _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
