Re: [Bug-grub] Re: address@hidden: Bug#111315: grub: problem with DAC960, kernel 2.4 and initrd]

[Jason Thomas]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:10:56PM -0400, dman wrote:
> | > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-686 root=/dev/rd/c0d0p1 ro

no its a DAC960 raid controller.


your problem could be because your fstab was wrong? or you didn't have
devfs mounted, which can be setup to do so automatically when you
compile the kernel or by a command line option to the kernel!

>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This looks a lot like a devfs path.  I recently enabled evfs in my
> 2.4.8 kernel and had an interesting time getting it to boot.  I got
> the "I have no root and I want to scream" kernel panic many times.  It
> turned out that I needed to use the old dev name in the kernel's root=
> argument.  (I just have a plain ide disk though)
> 
> Try this and see if it works then.

Thanks anyway!

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