Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?

[Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002, Roderick Cummings wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Is there a safe and stable way to build/install woody packages onto a
> > > potato system other than to dist-upgrade to woody?
> >
> >what's from with dist-upgrade?
> >
> 
> Only that the new 2.4 kernel-image wont mount my root partition:
> 
> request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
> 
> Even though lilo.conf specifies the correct root= option, and fstab is 
> correct as well.
> 

Did you remember to add the initrd line to lilo.conf?

HTH,

Daniel


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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University