Re: booting 2.4.4

[dmaziuk@bmrb.wisc.edu (Dimitri Maziuk)]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:42:20PM +0200, Daniel Faller wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 refuses to
> boot. 

FWIW I have 2.4.4 booting like a charm here. I didn't change my
lilo.conf either.

> But no success, it refuses to boot and basically tells me that it can not 
> find my /root partiton, but a "root=..." line is included in lilo.conf.
> 
> So what can I do in order to boot kernel 2.4.4 ? 

Try "linear" or "lba32" options in lilo.conf? It shouldn't matter if
your kernel is below 1024th cylinder, but it won't hurt to try...
we hope.

Dima
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