[plug] cant boot system any longer

[Rob Dunne]

Hi Tomasz,

I have
CONFIG_SCSI=m

is this the problem?

I can still boot by selecting an older kernel during the boot process 
but I was hoping that a 2.6 kernel would fix some otehr problems.

Bye
Rob



Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> 
> 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=3D/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=3DLABEL=3D/ nomce
>>          initrd /initrd-2.4.21-37.ELsmp.img
>>
>>
>> according to 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D12184=
> 
> 8
> 
>> 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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