Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:47:59 -0500 (EST) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: can't boot without "root=..." on kernel cmdline |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote: > Chuck Lever wrote: > > without specifying "root=...", the kernel panics on boot with the message > > "VFS: Cannot open root device 00:80". i have no idea where it's getting > > major=0, minor=128. specifying "root=/dev/sda1" on the LILO: cmdline > > allows linux to boot correctly. also the distributed RedHat kernels boot > > correctly without "root=..." > > Is this plain 2.3.39 or did you make any changes to > init/main.c:name_to_kdev_t or to include/linux/kdev_t.h:to_kdev_t ?
no changes to either, occurs in several kernel versions.
> First, you should check the output of lilo -q -v for the lines that say > Options: "root=801" or such. If all of them agree on "root=801", it's > init/main.c:name_to_kdev_t that is messing things up.
lilo says root=801. i'll see what's up with name_to_kdev_t.
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