grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:13 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote:
> I have already tried without LABEL, i never used lable, it was just a 
> type-o.
> 
> I ommited lable, and point root to / and left out rbgh, and got less error 
> messages, but still got the kernel panic.
> 
> oh boy.
> 
> martin
> 
> >From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?
> >Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:57:08 -0400
> >
> >David Colomer wrote:
> >
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> >>Kahn Seidl wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Somehow my grub.conf is emptied.  But, what I did is put it back in the
> >>>best I could from what someone else posted.
> >>>
> >>>title fc3
> >>>  root (hd0,2)
> >>>  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
> >>>  initrd  /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> >>>
> >>>Now when it boots I get a kernel panic and errors abotu mounting...
> >>>here is the list of errors
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >Should the LABLE be LABEL instead?  Or should the LABLE be removed entirely 
> >because /dev/hda2 is the device name and not a LABEL?
> >
> >title fc3
> >  root (hd0,2)
> >  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> >  initrd  /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> >
> >OR:
> >
> >title fc3
> >  root (hd0,2)
> >  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
> >  initrd  /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> >
> >Either version might work vs. the above version.
Martin,
You need to use one of the structures Jim showed above.
>From your comment above I infer that you have something like root=/ in
the kernel line, which will not work.


> >
> >Jim
> >
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