Re: failure to mount root fs

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 07:02:40 EST


On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:29, tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Macro,
>
> You wrote:
>
> > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> > ...
> > kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.4 ro root=LABEL=/
>
> The "LABEL=/" is the attempt to mount root filesystem by label, so you can
> move it to another disk. I find these "clever" things not mature yet and always replace it by an explicit device name (and don't move/replace root disk):

it's ok as long as you remember to make an initrd (make install in the
kernel source will do so automatic, at least on a RH/Fedora system)

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