Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:31:24 -0500 (EST) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: cannot boot 2.6.15-rc6 on Opteron machine |
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Erez Zilber wrote:
> Hi, > > I've downloaded kernel 2.6.15-rc6 (had the same problem with rc7) and built it > on RHAS 4: > > When I did that on an Opteron machine, after rebooting and selecting the > 2.6.15-rc6 entry in the grub menu, I get the following: > > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > I made sure that ext2 is compiled with the kernel (not as a module). > > When I do the same on an emt64 machine, everything works ok. Any idea?
Check on your /boot/grub.config. The above error message is typically seen when the root= parameter points to a symbolic disk label instead of a specific disk such as /dev/hda1. I'm not sure what the procedure for updating where the label points (possibly a mkinitrd) because I normally change the grub.conf to point to a specific disk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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