Re: Kernel or Grub bug.

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> have you tried removing the initrd entry in GRUB.
> In most cases you can safely do away with it.  That would
> atleast make sure the problem is not with the initrd.

Yes, I did it.
I'm actually using lilo, but I've tried with both.

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> Prasad
>
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> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Prasad wrote:
> >
> > > > "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"
> > >
> > > Your partition table suggests that there are two different partitions
> > > for
> > > '/boot'
> > > and '/'.  The GRUB loads the kernel from '/boot' which is (hd0,0) but
> > > the
> > > kernel is unable to find the '/' partition.   You may pass it using the
> > > parameter
> > > root=/dev/hda3.
> > >
> > > That should work.
> > >
> > > Prasad
> >
> > It may not work. As he said in the original message, he found lot's of
> > other
> > people with that problem, including... myself. Since 2.6.4 I can't boot
> > any 2.6
> > kernel, allways with that Kernel panic. I've tried several things,
> > including
> > using the root=/dev/hda3 parameter, and, at the time, I've raised the
> > issue
> > here on LKML, but no conclusion has been reached.
> >
> > A search on LKML led me to this:
> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.3/1180.html
> >
> > Mind Booster Noori
> >
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