Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: booting without initrd | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:40:59 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:40 -0400, Rahul Karnik wrote: > On 6/7/06, Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying to boot with 2.6.16 kernel at my desktop running fedora > > core 4 . It does not boot without initrd generating the message "VFS: > > can not open device "804" or unknown-block(8,4) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,4) > > AFAIK Fedora sets up the kernel command line with "root=LABEL=/" in > grub.conf and therefore needs the initrd in order to work correctly. > If you do not want an initrd, then change this to > "root=/dev/<your_disk>" in grub.conf.
it's more than that; also udev is used from the initrd to populate a ramfs /dev, if you go without the initrd you need to populate the *real* /dev manually first
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