Re: Root: mkinitrd ... Permission denied. (?)

[Bob Proulx]

Adam,

Did you mean to post this to address@hidden instead of
to us at address@hidden  GNU coreutils are the basic file,
shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.
You don't seem to be having a GNU coreutils problem.

I suggest looking there first.

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/

Bob

Adam Felix Bogacki wrote:
> Hi, at the risk of being tiresome (to myself if no one else) ... I 
> apt-graded to kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 successfully, but after the next 
> dist-upgrade - which 'upgraded' the kernel-image - I found reboot gave 
> me kernel panic
> 
> "VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb5" or unknown-block (0,0)
> Please append a correct "root= " boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)"
> 
> Googling around suggested that 2.6.5 has changed the parsing of the 
> "root= " boot  argument.
> 
> I rebooted with the rescue disk (2.4.8-bf2.4), which is missing its 
> modules dependency file (modules.dep), but now find
> 
> "Tux:~# /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -m /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5-1-686 -o 2.6.5custom
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd line 1: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5-1-686: Permission denied"
> 
> Am I missing something here - or a bug ?
> 
> Adam Bogacki,
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
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