kernel panic

[Nathan Bryant]

Looking back, it seems nobody in that thread had the syntax right, it 
should be root=LABEL=/ if the label of your root fs is "/"

This root= thing is actually at least 2 distinct buglets that are 
becoming an overall problem that should probably be bugzilla'd as 
"inconsistent support for root= option"

root=/dev/sda6 wasn't working for me with 2.6.x, and I spent some time 
tearing my hair out before figuring out I needed to label things. This 
will cause headaches with upgrades to FC2 for people who originally 
installed redhat 6 and got to fedora through a series of upgrades (so 
they dont have labelled filesystems)

And now apparently the root=LABEL=/ system may not work for some 
people--I assume it applies to those who aren't using initial 
ramdisks.(?) (Under what kernel versions, 2.4 2.6? This info should go 
into bugzilla)

Seems both those pieces of logic in the kernel could stand to be 
rewritten as a single subroutine

Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 11:21, Bartolomeus Irwanto wrote:
> 
>>try root=/dev/hdax in grub.conf, hdax is your root
>>partition.
>>I hope it works.
> 
> 
> Got this one today (just updated to latest arjanv kernel); specifying
> the root device by name instead of by label works, but the root is
> mounted as ext2 instead of ext3...
> 
> Klaasjan
> 
> 
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