Re: kernel 2.4.6
Am 17. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Matt Jones so:
> I have a problem. I have been trying to get the recent version of the kernel
> into my box. I am a relatively new user so I have not done this before. I
> used a kernel-update guide and followed all the directions and everything
> worked fine until I rebooted. When I did it gave me the following message:
> ...
> VFS: Cannot open root device "800" or 08:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:00
>
> I have not changed much in lilo.conf except the name of the new kernel, but
> the system can no longer find something or I have done something wrong.
I've been running into this as well.
Presuming you're installing kernel-image-2.4.6, link /boot/initrd-2.4.6 to
/boot/initrd:
cd /boot
ln -s initrd-2.4.6 initrd
Then edit your lilo.conf and add a "initrd=/boot/initrd" entry to your
stanza for the 2.4.6 kernel.
Run lilo to install the new boot block.
It seems that drivers necessary to read the fs are in initrd.
Don't know why it doesn't update lilo.conf to work. I plan on submitting a
bug tomorrow after experimenting some. There are a couple of things it's
doing that I haven't seen, so maybe my fix isn't supposed to be necessary.
ciao,
der.hans
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