kernel panic

[Nathan Bryant]

Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:37:14 -0500
> Nathan Bryant <nbryant at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>root=/dev/sda6 wasn't working for me with 2.6.x, and I spent some time 
>>tearing my hair out before figuring out I needed to label things. This 
>>will cause headaches with upgrades to FC2 for people who originally 
>>installed redhat 6 and got to fedora through a series of upgrades (so 
>>they dont have labelled filesystems)
> 
> 
> You are not forced to use labels.  Specifying the correct drive/partition
> will work.   Not sure what you were doing wrong in the example you
> mention.
> 
> 
>>And now apparently the root=LABEL=/ system may not work for some 
>>people--I assume it applies to those who aren't using initial 
>>ramdisks.(?) (Under what kernel versions, 2.4 2.6? This info should go 
>>into bugzilla)
> 
> 
> It does not work without an initrd.   The system as supplied by the Fedora
> project has an initrd.   If people using labels customize their system
> they can provide an initrd.   It's the way it works, it's not a bug.
> 
> 
>>Seems both those pieces of logic in the kernel could stand to be 
>>rewritten as a single subroutine
> 
> 
> Labels are not in the kernel.  They're in the initrd.   The kernel doesn't
> know anything about it.

Baloney. have you read the linuxrc?

> 
> 
> Sean.
> 
> 
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