Re: 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs

From: Mr. James W. Laferriere
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 09:43:15 EST


Hello Gaxt , I take it that there is no documentation of the
change to the 'Kernel's 'root' parameter syntax ? Tia , JimL

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, gaxt wrote:
> It's not a lilo issue (ie. I use grub) I ran into the issue when I first
> started with the 2.6.0 series test kernels.

> Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > He3llo Gaxt , Is this change to the lilo.conf funtionality
> > documented someplace ? It is not in the halloween-2.5 document .
> > Tia , JimL

> > On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, gaxt wrote:
> >> > I am trying 2.6.0-test3 but cannot get the kernel to mount /dev/hdb1
> >> > which is the root fs.
> >>Try changing in your bootloader root=/dev/hdb1 to root=341
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