[plug] cant boot system any longer

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Could also be that you don't have the correct device drivers in your
kernel / initrd, which never creates the nodes for /dev/sda*, which is
why your system cannot boot off it.

Either way, you're probably going to have to use some kind of rescue
solution, eg. knoppix or something.

Tomasz

On 5/19/06, Rob Dunne <rob.dunne at csiro.au> wrote:
> Hi Plug,
>
> I just upgraded a kernel from 2.4.21-37.ELsmp to 2.6.16.16,
> but now I cant boot the system with this kernel.
>
> It says
> "VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2"
>
> here is the grub.conf
>
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.6.16.16)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16.16 ro root=/dev/sda2 nomce
>          initrd /initrd-2.6.16.16.img
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.4.21-37.ELsmp)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-37.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ nomce
>          initrd /initrd-2.4.21-37.ELsmp.img
>
>
> according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121848
> the device names can change with different kernels. Is this correct? How
> do I find the correct device name?
>
>
> Bye
> Rob
>
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