Re: dev fs LABEL=/

[Joshua Legbandt <jtlegbandt earthlink net>]

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:03, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 10:45, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > I tried to compile a custom 2.4.22 kernel - when I boot it I get a VFS
> > kernel panic error saying it cannot open root device LABEL=/ or 00:00.
> > I'm looking through xconfig to see if I don't have devfs setup. I used
> > the .config included with fedora core kernel source. It doesn't surprise
> > me that the .config isn't accurate - I couldn't get the fedora core
> > source to compile acpi, so i think it's not an accurate source tree.
> 
> You probably want to use the config files found in /boot that you get
> from installing a kernel image.
> 

actually, I've had to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf (or /etc/grub.conf) to
reflect the actual partiion instead of the device label for the new
kernel's entry. Never figured out another way around it.

-josh

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Joshua Legbandt <jtlegbandt earthlink net>