<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>Dope! :-( you are dead on!</DIV> <DIV>I was trying to load a standard initrd with the smp kernel.</DIV> <DIV>It works great now, thanks for everything!</DIV> <DIV> >>> boris.lenzinger@castify.net 2005-02-22 09:27:25 >>> </DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">I've read around about this problem and the reason is probably that you don't use the initrd with the version number of the kernel... For instance, lines in my grub.conf are the following: =========================== title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.766_FC3) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.img =========================== You really have to use the same version for initrd and for the kernel else you will always get in trouble. Could you send the line you use for booting ? Boris Guy-Michel Lessard wrote: > Thanks Boris for answering back, i`m a bit overwhelmed in my teaching > these days so i could not answer back. > You are right, there is a initrd command in grub. > I tried it but no go, It starts loading up low level drivers and then > a cascade of error messages. As far as i can see on the screen (there > may be more before but i can't scroll back the screen) i get: > loading libata.ko > libata: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module. > > The last line essentially repeats for all the latter modules. > > >>> boris.lenzinger@castify.net 2005-02-17 12:50:28 >>> > You have to specify an initrd for booting. > Once you have typed > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xxx ro root=LABEL=/ > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > you have to type > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > initrd /boot/initrd-xxx > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > where xxx is the same version as the one of the kernel. Command line > completion should be helpful to avoid typo. > > With a local boot, it works likes this but may be in LTSP (I'm not > familiar with it), it can be different. > > The root=LABEL=/ is a way to detect the / partition without having to > specify a partition like /dev/hda1 (from what I've understood). So you > can have a rack with another disk in which you have a disk where > partition slash is labelled / and it should run the same way... > > Hope it helps. > > Boris > > Guy-Michel Lessard wrote: > > > I'm trying to learn how to boot the 4.2.0 server with a grub boot disk > > and it only partially boots. > > Here is what i type: > > GRUB> root (hd0,0) yes its on /dev/hda1 > > GRUB> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp ro root=/dev/hda1 > > GRUB> boot > > > > The kernel loads up to selinux with a message about 10 lines > > before stating that it can't open a console. > > > > In menu.lst, the kernel line reads this: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp ro root=LABEL=/1 > > > > What is this root=LABEL=/1 option? what does it mean? > > P.S.: i did try this option in grub interactive and the kernel > > crashes, it only work in the menu.lst file. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >K12OSN mailing list > >K12OSN@redhat.com > ><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > >For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN@redhat.com > <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >K12OSN mailing list >K12OSN@redhat.com ><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> >For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> </DIV></BODY></HTML>