<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:56, Budai Laszlo wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>Hello, I'm trying to compile the 2.6.1 kernel on Cedora Core 1. I've downloaded the source from kernel.org, and try to follow the readme for installing. a did make menuconfig, select the things I need (ex3 extended attributes and posix ACL among them), then make, make bzImage, make modules make modules_install, make install. Before make install I've loaded the loop kernel module. When I try to boot the new kernel it hangs with the folloving error: VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block (0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0) I did try to specify root=0803 in grub.conf but the message now is: VFS: cannot open root device "0803" or unknown-block (8,3) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,3) What can be done? thank you, Laszlo</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> In grub.conf, try changing LABEL=/ to the real device name (e.g. /dev/hda1) of your / partition. Something like: <BLOCKQUOTE> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.2 ro root=/dev/hda1 </BLOCKQUOTE> However labels work okay for me with the 2.6.2 kernel. Bob... </BODY> </HTML>