[SGVLUG] RH9, upgrading from 2.4.20-8 to 2.4.31 and initrd

[David Lawyer]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:41:21PM -0700, Robert Leyva wrote:
> Greets,
> 
> Anyone know what modules I may need to manually add into the mkinitrd 
> command?
> 
> (I made my 2.4.31 kernel using "make oldconfig")
> 
> In "/boot" I do the default mkinitrd initrd-2.4.31.img 2.4.31 and get a 
> proper img file.
> 
> But during boot up I get a kernel panic about
> ...
> VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> please append a correct "root=" boot option
> ....

Searching using Google but not bothering to read the messages, someone
claimed that LABEL ... doesn't work anymore.  I use lilo so I'm not
sure.  But most write something like: "ro root=/dev/hda2" instead of
using LABEL.

> 
> The thing is, I am using the same settings as the default entry in 
> /boot/grub.conf for 2.4.20-8.
> The second entry starting with "title Red Hat Linux (2.4.31)" is what I 
> manually added.
> ...
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
>        initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.31)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /bzImage-2.4.31 ro root=LABEL=/
>        initrd /initrd-2.4.31.img
> ....
> 
> I think I may need to specify a module to pass as an argument to 
> mkinitrd, but am not sure of which module(s) it needs.
> 
> (sigh) I didn't have this trouble with Debian, as sarge doesn't use initrd.
> 
> -- 
> ---
> "Knowledge is Power." -- Francis Bacon
> 
> Robert Leyva 
> (Robert.Leyva at warnerbros.com)
> Software Engineer
> Warner Bros. Online
> 
> 
			David Lawyer